In yet another attack on non-locals in Jammu and Kashmir, a migrant worker from Uttar Pradesh was shot at by unidentified terrorists in the Pulwama district in South Kashmir on Thursday morning, officials said.
Shubam Kumar, a resident of Bijnore, received a gunshot injury in the arm when the terrorists fired at him at Batagund village of Tral area, the officials said.
This is the third attack on non-local labourers in Kashmir in the past one week.
It came days after one doctor and six migrant workers were killed after terrorists opened fire at a construction site in the Sonamarg area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on Sunday evening. The attack occurred near an under-construction tunnel. Four others were also injured in the attack.
All of them were employees of APCO Infrastructure, which is building a tunnel from Z-Morh to Sonamarg tourist resort to make the Srinagar-Sonamarg road an all-weather road. The unidentified terrorists — believed to be at least two — carried out the attack when the labourers and other staff working on the tunnel project at Gund in Ganderbal had returned to their camp late in the evening
In another attack, a labourer from Bihar was shot dead by terrorists in Shopian district on October 18.