In the run up to the 75th Independence Day celebrations in the Kashmir valley, another migrant labourer from Bihar was killed late Thursday night in Bandipore while a policeman received bullet injuries when unidentified terrorists attacked a joint 'naka' party in Anantnag on Friday.
More than a week ago, a non-local labourer from Bihar was killed and two others were injured in a grenade attack in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district.
Impressive response to the nation wide 'Har Ghar Tiranga' campaign across Kashmir valley seems to have frustrated the handlers of the terrorist outfits and other hardliners in the Kashmir valley.
These recent incidents of targeted attacks on the security personnel and outside laborers has already prompted the integrated security grid to do a fresh audit of security arrangements and pattern of deployment for security duties to prevent such strikes.
According to police, "A migrant labourer from Bihar was shot at by terrorists at Soadnara Sumbal during the intervening night of Thursday and Friday in Bandipore. The deceased labourer was identified as Mohd Amrez, son of Mohd Jalil and a resident of Bihar's Madhepura. Soon after being shot, he was shifted to the hospital for treatment where he died. A close relative of the deceased laborer, Mohammad Tamheed, who identified himself as Amrez’s brother, said they were sleeping when they heard gunshots around 12:20 am.
“We were sleeping and it was 12:20 am when my younger brother woke me up, saying some shots were fired. I told him such things happen, so sleep. But he told me that he will take a look as another brother was not in the room.
“He went downstairs and saw him (Amrez) covered in blood. We called the Army. They came and took him to Hajin. The doctors there told us to take him to Srinagar, but he succumbed on the way,” Tamheed said.
Tamheed and Amrez’s colleagues appealed to the government to help them take his body back to Bihar.
Meanwhile, a policeman was injured on Friday when terrorists attacked a team of security personnel in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district. According to a tweet of Kashmir Zone police,“Terrorists fired upon joint naka party of police/CRPF in Bijbehara area of Anantnag,”
A policeman sustained injuries in the attack and was rushed to a hospital for treatment, the police said.
The area was cordoned-off and a search was launched to track down the foot prints of terrorists behidn the attack, a police spokesman added.