Kashmir terror: 20 killed in four attacks, Rajnath slams Pakistan

Srinagar, Dec 5: It was a day of terror in Kashmir as 20 people, including eight army men, were killed and at least 11 injured Friday in a string of brazen militant strikes, days ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rally here for the staggered assembly elections. Heavily armed militants attacked an army camp and a police check post, besides hurling a grenade at a posse of security personnel at three places. A smoke grenade also went off at a fourth place. Modi is to address an election rally in Srinagar Monday. The state is in the midst of the five-phase assembly elections, with the next phase scheduled for Dec 9. The polls began Nov 25 and end Dec 20, with the vote count to be held Dec 23. Home Minister Rajnath Singh slammed Pakistan for the serial terror attacks and demanded that it should stop these incidents. The home minister told TV reporters in New Delhi that Pakistan gives shelter to terrorists and its result is violence in the Kashmir Valley. Lt. Col. Sankalp Kumar and a junior commissioned officer were among the soldiers killed in the pre-dawn terror attack at the army's Field Ordnance Camp located at Mohra, near the border town of Uri.