First terror attack on J&K rail track

Terror hit railway tracks in the Valley for the first time as suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba men blew up a part of the line near Avantipora station late on Thursday night, disrupting train services between north and south Kashmir for several hours. There was no casualty. The terrorists detonated an improvised explosive device at Gulbugh village, 44km from Srinagar, between Anantnag and Pulwama around 10.30pm. It was the first attack on railway property in the Valley, a Northern Railway spokesman said in New Delhi, adding that it indicated the ‘‘desperation’’ of the extremists.