SRINAGAR: A 19-year-old barber named Shubam Kumar from UP’s Bijnor suffered a gunshot wound in his proper arm in a terrorist assault at Batagund village in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district Thursday morning. Kumar was rushed to a hospital in close by Tral, the place officers confirmed he’s out of hazard.
This marked the third focused assault on migrant staff in Kashmir valley inside per week and the sixth this 12 months.
The assault adopted a sample of latest violence, paying homage to the mass capturing Sunday night when Pakistani terrorists stormed a tunnel-construction firm’s campsite on Srinagar-Leh freeway in Ganderbal district, leaving seven individuals useless.
The capturing claimed the lives of a health care provider from Budgam district in Kashmir, an architectural engineer from Jammu, three staff from Bihar, and one every from Madhya Pradesh and Punjab. It was one of many deadliest assaults on civilians within the Union territory in 2024, following the June 9 ambush on a pilgrim bus in Reasi district of Jammu division, which killed 9 individuals.
Focused violence in opposition to migrant staff has seen a troubling rise in Kashmir these days, evoking reminiscences of 2022 when 29 fatalities have been reported, together with 5 Kashmiri Pandits.
Earlier on Friday, the bullet-riddled physique of a 30-year-old migrant employee from Bihar’s Banka district was present in a maize discipline in south Kashmir’s Shopian district. Police stated he was kidnapped and killed by terrorists.
On April 8, a vacationer cab driver from Delhi was critically wounded in Shopian, whereas a 35-year-old migrant employee from Bihar was fatally shot in Anantnag on April 17. In Feb, two males from Punjab have been shot useless in Srinagar.
The uptick in terrorist exercise in Kashmir valley adopted a comparatively quiet 2023 when off-duty law enforcement officials have been primarily focused, with exceptions such because the deadly capturing of a labourer from UP in Pulwama on October 30.
