BANDIPORA: A labourer from Bihar was fired upon by terrorists at Soadnara Sumbal in Jammu and Kashmir's Bandipora district on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday, following which he succumbed to his injuries, police said.
The deceased labourer was identified as Mohd Amrez, hailing from Bihar's Madhepura.
Soon after being shot, he was shifted to the hospital for treatment where he died.
This was the second targeted killing of migrant labourers in the Valley in the last eight days.
Amrez and his two siblings, one of whom is Mohammad Hamid, were staying in a rented accommodation in Soadnara. “Around midnight, my younger brother woke me up saying there was firing and that Amrez was not there in the room. When we went outside, we saw him lying in a pool of blood,” Hamid said.
"During intervening night, #terrorists fired upon & injured one outside #labourer Mohd Amrez S/O Mohd Jalil R/O Madhepura Besarh #Bihar at Soadnara Sumbal, #Bandipora. He was shifted to hospital for treatment where he succumbed," tweeted Kashmir Zone Police this morning.
This comes a day after four army personnel died while neutralising two terrorists who attempted to carry out a suicide bomb attack at Rajouri on Thursday.
Subedar Rajendra Prasad, Rifleman Manoj Kumar and Rifleman Lakshmanan D made the supreme sacrifice for the country during the operation on Thursday morning.
However, the Army personel managed to foil the suicide bomb attack at its basecamp and killed both the terrorists.
(With inputs from our correspondent Fayaz Wani)