Two labourers had been killed and two injured in a terrorist assault in Jammu and Kashmir‘s Ganderbal district on Sunday.
The terrorists opened fireplace on the camp housing labourers of a personal firm engaged on development of a tunnel at Gund space within the district, officers informed information company PTI.
Two labourers died on the spot whereas two others sustained accidents. Police and armed forces have cordoned off the realm to trace the attackers.
That is the fifth focused assault on non-natives in Kashmir this yr.
Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah condemned the assault, calling it “a dastardly & cowardly assault on non-local labourers”.
“Very unhappy information of a dastardly & cowardly assault on non-local labourers at Gagangir in Sonamarg area. These folks had been engaged on a key infrastructure mission within the space. 2 have been killed & 2-3 extra have been injured on this militant assault. I strongly condemn this assault on unarmed harmless folks & ship my condolences to their family members,” Abdullah posted on X.
Earlier, just a few days in the past, the bullet-riddled physique of a 30-year-old migrant labourer named Ashok Chauhan from Bihar’s Banka district was present in a maize discipline close to Rambiara river in south Kashmir’s Shopian district.
Police stated Chauhan was kidnapped and killed by terrorists, marking the primary focused assault on migrant staff within the valley since CM Omar Abdullah’s coalition govt assumed workplace in J&Okay on October 16.
A vacationer cab driver named Paramjit Singh from Delhi was critically wounded in Shopian on April 8, whereas Raju Shah, a 35-year-old migrant employee from Bihar, was shot useless by terrorists in Anantnag on April 17. In Feb, two males from Punjab had been shot useless in Srinagar.
“Our safety forces are decided to seek out the culprits and produce them to justice. My ideas are together with his members of the family…,” lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha had posted after Chauhan’s killing.
CM Omar condemned the assault, whereas J&Okay BJP chief Ravinder Raina stated: “Cowardly Pakistani terrorists killed Ashok Chauhan…The terrorists can be punished.”
