Unknown gunmen shot dead an elderly woman in a riverside village near Sangam in south Kashmir's Anantnag district late on Friday evening. Sources said that unknown gunmen barged into the house of one Mohammad Yousuf Mattu at Naina Batpora village in south Kashmir and opened fire on his 52-year-old wife Beeba. The wounded Beeba was immediately shifted to hospital where she succumbed to her injuries. The identity of the attackers was not ascertained immediately.