At least four civilians were killed and six were injured after unidentified armed men, in a suspected terror attack, indiscriminately opened fire in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district on Sunday evening.
A child was killed and another critically injured in an Improvised Explosive Devise (IED) blast on Monday.
Army bomb disposal team arrives after an explosion, in Dangri village in Rajouri district,
Angry residents and relatives took to the streets with the bodies of the four men killed in a targeted attack at Dhangri in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K)’s Rajouri on Sunday, demanding the safety of the minorities.
The protesters blamed security forces and intelligence agencies for failing in checking terrorism in the region and the transfer of deputy magistrate Vikas Kundal and senior police superintendent Mohammad Aslam.
Deepak Kumar, 23, Satish Kumar, 45, Pritam Lal, 56, and Shiv Pal, 32, were killed and six others injured when unidentified armed men in a suspected terror attack indiscriminately fired on them.
Sanatan Dharam Sabha and other Hindu organisations such as Vishva Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal have called for a bandh to protest against the killings. The Bharatiya Janata Party has supported the call.
Opposition parties strongly condemned the recent terrorist attack in Rajouri district in which six people, including a child was killed, in separate incidents and blamed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government at the centre and Jammu and Kashmir lieutenant governor’s administration for spike in terror attacks in the region.
Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and National Conference (NC) leader Farooq Abdullah on Monday said terrorists do not discriminate between victims, whether they are Hindus or Muslims, as he condemned the recent terrorist attack on innocents.
“I condemn the killing of innocent persons. It does not matter what religion or region the victim belongs to, an innocent is an innocent,” Farooq Abdullah told reporters on Monday.
He said illness in the region has increased and this is the result of the hatred being spread in the nation today.
