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At least 11 persons including nine yatris of Shri Budha Amarnath Ji pilgrimage were injured, when a suspected militant lobbed grenade at Bagh Deodi in Jammu and Kashmir. Condition of six injured persons is reported to be critical. Police and para-military personnel carried out searches in the area but the culprit remained untraced, so far. The injured person have been hospitalised in Poonch and Rajouri.
The Budha Amarnath Ji yatra, which had started on 9th of August, is to culminate on 18th August on Thursday along with Shri Amarnath Ji yatra coinciding with the pious occasion of Shravan Purnima and Raksha Bandhan.
Meanwhile, security has been beefed up across the state and along the LoC and Indo-Pakistan international border on the eve of the Independence Day. Tight security has been made across the state.