Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Police on Wednesday announced that a terrorist involved in a grenade attack that killed two migrant workers from Kannauj in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday has been killed. Manish Kumar and Ram Sagar were killed in the second targeted attack in J&K’s Shopian in three days. Police said earlier on Tuesday that two terrorists responsible for the killings had been arrested and a manhunt was underway for their commander. They said terrorists lobbed a grenade into Kumar and Sagar’s rented tin shed in Harmain village. Both were injured and later succumbed to their injuries in hospital.
The grenade attack came three days after Puran Krishan Bhat (56), a Kashmiri Pandit, was shot dead at his residence in Shopian on Saturday. A little-known organization, the Kashmiri Freedom Fighters, had earlier claimed responsibility for Bhat’s murder, sparking a series of protests in Kashmir. Tuesday’s attack was the latest in a series of attacks on migrant workers. On September 2, Muneer ul Islam, a laborer from West Bengal, was shot dead in Pulwama.
Islam was shot dead days after Mohammad Amrez, a migrant worker from Bihar’s Madhepora, was killed on August 11 in Sumbal in Bandipora district. This year, 17 civilians, including six migrant workers, have been killed in targeted attacks in Kashmir.
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