A 19-year-old migrant worker was shot dead in the Bandipora district of Jammu and Kashmir, in the early hours of Friday morning.
The police reported this on Friday and said Amrej, 19, a resident of Madhepura Besarh Bihar was shot at from a close range by an unidentified terrorist at Sadunara Ajas in Bandipora during the intervening night of Thursday and Friday.
” He was shifted to hospital where he succumbed,” a police official said. The incident took place at around 1 am. The killing of a non-local took place a day after a senior police officer said all militants involved in target killings except one have been neutralised in different encounters.
“Except LeT’s terrorist Basit Dar of Kulgam who would be either arrested or neutralised in an encounter at the earliest, all terrorists involved in target killings have been neutralised in different encounters,” Additional Director General of Police Vijay Kumar had said after the killing of top commander Lateef Rather and two of his associates. Police said Rather was involved in the killing of civilians including a Kashmiri Pandit and a woman TV artist in May this year in Budgam.
It is stunning that in the most militarized zone in the world, the terrorists are able to have such free reign to kill civilians.