By way of PTI
SRINAGAR: Terrorists shot lifeless a civilian in Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, officers stated right here.
Satish Kumar Singh, a Rajput, used to be shot via terrorists in Kakran space of the south Kashmir district at round 7.30 pm.
Officers stated the 2 police workforce posted at his space rushed out after listening to gunfire and located Singh in a pool of blood.
Fifty-five-year-old Singh, who gained one bullet within the head and two within the chest, used to be taken to a sanatorium in Srinagar the place he died.
“Civilian Satish Kumar Singh, a resident of Kulgam, succumbed to his accidents at sanatorium. Terrorists concerned on this ugly terror crime will probably be neutralised quickly. Seek to trace the concerned terrorists in development,” the police stated in a tweet.
Officers suspect {that a} new recruit of the Lashkar-e-Taiba terror workforce used to be concerned within the assault.
Kulgam and Shopian districts have small wallet with Rajput households who’ve now not migrated out of Jammu and Kashmir.
They’re principally into apple industry.
Terrorists have stepped up assaults on civilians in south Kashmir over the last 10 days.
4 labourers hailing from out of doors Jammu and Kashmir had been injured in two separate assaults in Pulwama closing week, whilst a Kashmiri Pandit shopkeeper used to be shot and injured via terrorists in Shopian.
A big tragedy used to be avoided on Wednesday after safety forces detected an improvised explosive software (IED) planted via terrorists on a hectic street in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district, police stated.
A police birthday party spotted a suspicious polythene bag mendacity alongside the Gath street at the outskirts of Doda the city past due within the night time, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Doda, Abdul Qayoom informed PTI.
He stated the site visitors at the street used to be right away suspended and the Particular Operations Workforce of the native police, Military and Central Reserve Police Drive (CRPF) workforce reached the spot, at the side of the bomb disposal squad, which after inspection showed the presence of an IED throughout the bag.
The IED used to be therefore neutralised via professionals at a close-by remoted position with out inflicting any injury, the SSP stated.
He stated police have registered a case and introduced a probe to spot the ones answerable for planting the IED at the street.