Information About Incident 2633-5867-13337 in Goalpara India

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Also on the same day, in the afternoon, one police personnel was injured as some unidentified terrorists from a procession lobbed a grenade on the Police and also fired several shots at Gojwara Chowk in Nowhatta on March 16.

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• Meta Location: Gojwara Chowk Nowhatta
• Matched District: Goalpara
• Actgroup: attack
• Actor: some unidentified terrorists from a procession
• Subject: a grenade on the Police

Context

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Also on the same day, in the afternoon, one police personnel was injured as some unidentified terrorists from a procession lobbed a grenade on the Police and also fired several shots at Gojwara Chowk in Nowhatta on March 16. However, the terrorists managed to escape from the site of the incident. The procession was part of the strike call given by Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Omar Farooq, senior leaders of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC), in protest against the alleged act of desecration of the holy Quran by certain Vishwa Hindu Parishad activists at New Delhi recently. Police also detained Geelani and other leaders of the Hurriyat when he tried to lead a protest demonstration near his residence at Hyderpora.

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