SRINAGAR: In central Kashmir's Budgam district, a pall of sorrow descended when a family lost their lone bread earner in a militant attack in Pulwama district of South Kashmir on Wednesday.
Srinagar, July 19: A forest guard, injured in a militant attack in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir, died at a hospital here on Wednesday, officials said. Militants had fired upon a team of forest department employees who had set up a checkpoint to apprehend timber smugglers near the Bangender Bridge in the south Kashmir
The J-K Police on Wednesday said that the firing on two forest department employees had been done by the assailants using an AK-47 rifle unlikely to be used by timber smugglers as reported earlier.A police statement said, "Police in .
As the Forest Department has intensified its campaign to check the illegal falling of trees in Kashmir, terrorists attacked some officials to create fear among employees deployed in checking timber smuggling.