By PTI
SRINAGAR: Terrorists shot lifeless a civilian in Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, officers mentioned right here.
Satish Kumar Singh, a Rajput, was shot by terrorists in Kakran space of the south Kashmir district at round 7.30 pm.
Officials mentioned the 2 police personnel posted at his home rushed out after listening to gunfire and located Singh in a pool of blood.
Fifty-five-year-old Singh, who obtained one bullet within the head and two within the chest, was taken to a hospital in Srinagar the place he died.
“Civilian Satish Kumar Singh, a resident of Kulgam, succumbed to his injuries at hospital. Terrorists involved in this gruesome terror crime will be neutralised soon. Search to track the involved terrorists in progress,” the police mentioned in a tweet.
Officials suspect {that a} new recruit of the Lashkar-e-Taiba terror group was concerned within the assault.
Kulgam and Shopian districts have small pockets with Rajput households who haven’t migrated out of Jammu and Kashmir.
They are primarily into apple enterprise.
Terrorists have stepped up assaults on civilians in south Kashmir over the previous 10 days.
Four labourers hailing from exterior Jammu and Kashmir have been injured in two separate assaults in Pulwama final week, whereas a Kashmiri Pandit shopkeeper was shot and injured by terrorists in Shopian.
A significant tragedy was averted on Wednesday after safety forces detected an improvised explosive system (IED) planted by terrorists on a busy street in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district, police mentioned.
A police social gathering observed a suspicious polythene bag mendacity alongside the Gath street on the outskirts of Doda city late within the night, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Doda, Abdul Qayoom instructed PTI.
He mentioned the visitors on the street was instantly suspended and the Special Operations Group of the native police, Army and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel reached the spot, together with the bomb disposal squad, which after inspection confirmed the presence of an IED contained in the bag.
The IED was subsequently neutralised by consultants at a close-by remoted place with out inflicting any harm, the SSP mentioned.
He mentioned police have registered a case and launched a probe to establish these liable for planting the IED on the street.
