SRINAGAR: Two residential houses and a cowshed were damaged in a fire mishap in south Kashmir Shopian district. An official said that during the night hours, fire broke out in Choudhary Gund Shopian and engulfed few structures.
Puran Krishen Bhat is the seventh Kashmiri Pandit to have been gunned down in targeted killings in Kashmir in the past two years. In the village of Choudhary Gund, his Muslim friends and Pandit relatives worry that this will erode the deep understanding between the two communities.
Srinagar, Oct 15: A Kashmiri Pandit was shot dead by terrorists in the Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, officials said. Puran Krishan Bhat was attacked near his residence in the Chowdhary Gund area of south Kashmir district, they said, adding that doctors declared Krishan brought dead after he was shifted to Shopian hospital. The area has been cordoned off and a hunt has been launched to nab the assailants, they added. “#Terrorists fired upon a #civilian (minority) […]