Jammu, 7 October : Terrorists have gunned down, two civilians in broad day light in Jammu and Kashmir’s Safa Kadal area of Srinagar on Thursday. These killings are second such incident in Srinagar. Earlier on Tuesday, three civilians were shot dead by militants in the Valley.
As per reports the terrorists fired upon the two persons, identified as Satinder Kour and Deepak Chand, both residents of Alochibagh in Safa Kadal, leaving them critically injured.
They were rushed to Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) hospital where they were declared brought dead on arrival. Security forces have reached the spot and corden off the area.
One of the deceased Satinder Kour was the principal while Deepak Chand was a teacher at Sangam School in Srinagar. Chand is a Kashmiri Pandit and the woman was a Sikh.
While 70-year-old Makhan Lal Bindroo, a prominent businessman and the owner of Bindroo Medicate pharmacy in Srinagar’s Iqbal Park, was shot at from point-blank range inside his pharmacy around 7 pm, terrorists struck at Lal Bazar in downtown Srinagar and killed a street food vendor who was identified as Virender Paswan. Another civilian was shot dead by terrorists in Bandipora. The man was identified as Mohammad Shafi, the president of a taxi stand in the area.
