Jammu and Kashmir: Ex-sarpanch killed, tourist couple injured in separate militant attacks
The former sarpanch was attacked in the Shopian district, while the tourist couple sustained bullet injuries near Pahalgam.
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A former sarpanch was killed and a tourist couple was injured in two separate militant attacks in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, The Hindu reported.
The police said that militants fired at the former sarpanch, Ajaz Ahmad Sheikh, at his home in Shopian’s Hurpora area. He later succumbed to his injuries.
Sheikh was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Sajid Yousuf Shah, the head of the BJP’s media department in Kashmir, said that the party firmly stands with his family, Greater Kashmir reported.
In the Anantnag district’s Yannar area, a woman named Farha and her husband Tabrez – both of whom hail from Jaipur – were injured in firing by militants on Saturday, the police said. The couple was reportedly attacked near the tourist destination of Pahalgam.
Farha and Tabrez have been sent to a hospital, and the area where the attack took place has been cordoned off.
The attack near Pahalgam took place days before Lok Sabha elections in the Anantnag-Rajouri constituency, scheduled for May 25. The seat was originally slated to go to polls on May 7, but the election was rescheduled on the grounds of logistical and communication-related difficulties.
On Saturday, Peoples Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti said: “While we condemn the attack in Pahalgam today that resulted in injuries to two tourists followed by another attack on a sarpanch in Hurpora,...
