An attempt by Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Taiba to carry out a suicide attack in Srinagar city was today thwarted by Jammu and Kashmir police leading to the death of a policeman and injuries to seven others. Highly-placed police sources said that an intelligence input was received yesterday suggesting that LeT terrorists were planning to carry out a suicide attack in the city. Following the input, the authorities sent messages on mobiles to public at large and officials concerned asking them to alert. <br/><br/>The Police prevented the militants from approaching a possible target and stopped them during a routing check near Pladdium in the heart of Lal Chowk. The militants panicked when stopped and started firing indiscriminately besides hurling three grenades and rushed towards a small hotel identified as Punjab Hotel on the adjacent Court Road. During the firing and lobbying of grenades by the militants, police constable Mohammed Yusuf, who was driver of Station House Officer of Maisuma, was killed while seven others including a camera person of a New Delhi-based private TV news channel were injured. <br/><br/>The condition of one of the injured is stated to be critical, the sources said, adding that he is being operated upon. Director General of Police Kuldeep Khoda said senior officers had rushed to the spot to oversee the operations. Though Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen claimed the responsibility for the attack, the sources said this is a handiwork of Lashker terrorists only.