3 soldiers wounded in Srinagar, Hizb owns attack (Lead)

Srinagar April 1 (IANS) Three soldiers were injured on Saturday in an attack on a convoy claimed by Hizbul Mujahideen in Jammu and Kashmir s Srinagar district officials said.

The militants fired at the convoy near the Jhelum Valley College of Medical Science on the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad highway the officials told IANS.

The militant outfit owned responsibility for the attack and said it had been carried out to protest Prime Minister Narendra Modi s visit.

On Sunday Modi will inaugurate the 9.2 km Nashri-Chenani tunnel that connects Jammu region s Udhampur and Ramban districts on the strategic 300 km Jammu-Srinagar National Highway.

The army convoy was coming from north Kashmir s Baramulla town and was enroute to Srinagar city.

--IANS
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