Two migrant workers shot at and injured in Kashmir’s Budgam; search op under way

Srinagar: Two migrant workers were shot and injured by terrorists in Mazahama area of Central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Friday.

Terrorists fired upon two labourers from Uttar Pradesh in Mazhama on Friday evening resulting in injuries to the duo, reports said. They were immediately shifted to a nearby hospital where their condition is stated to be stable.

The injured were identified as Sanjay and Usman, who were engaged in the Jal Jeevan Project as labourers. Immediately after the attack, police and security forces rushed to the area to nab the attackers.

There has been spurt in terror attacks on migrant workers and security forces in the valley since Omar Abdullah took office as the first Chief Minister of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir on October 16.

On October 24, three soldiers and two army porters were killed in a terror attack in Bota Pathari, around 12 kms from famous ski-resort Gulmarg and close to the Line of Control (LoC), when terrorists ambushed an army vehicle.

Four days prior, seven persons, including a local doctor, were killed in a terror attack near an under-construction tunnel in Gund area of central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on October 16. Among the victims were both local and non-local workers, police said and added two terrorists were involved in the attack.

On October 18, Ashok Chouhan, a corn vendor from Bihar, was shot dead by terrorists in the Shopian district.