Terrorists carried out the blast near Tulip Garden in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. An auto driver died in this blast. The police have given information about this. Police said the blast took place when the driver of the van with the registration number of Jammu district opened the rear door of the vehicle near the parking area.

The Resistance Front (TRF), an organization affiliated to Lashkar-e-Taiba, operating in Jammu and Kashmir, has claimed responsibility for the attack. TRF said that magnetic IEDs have been used in the attack.

In recent times, there has been an increase in terrorist incidents in Jammu and Kashmir. At the same time, the security forces killed two terrorists today. Two terrorists of banned terrorist organizations Ansar Gajwatul Hind and Lashkar-e-Taiba were killed in an encounter with security forces in Tral area of ​​Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district on Wednesday. The terrorists have been identified as Safat Muzaffar Sofi alias Muawiyah of Ansar Gajwatul Hind and Umar Teli alias Talha of Lashkar, a police official said.

He said both were wanted in several terror cases including the murder of a sarpanch in Khonmoh area of ​​Srinagar earlier this year. According to the official, both the terrorists had recently made their base in Tral.

Earlier on April 4, terrorists carried out three attacks. In these attacks, a CRPF jawan was martyred and four people including two workers from Bihar and a Kashmiri Pandit were injured.

Militants opened fire on Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel in Maisuma area on Monday, injuring two jawans. The injured were taken to SMHS hospital, where doctors declared one jawan - head constable Vishal Kumar - brought dead, while another was undergoing treatment, he said.