Militants in the evening of October 29 shot dead five laboures from West Bengal and injured another at Kitrusu village in Kulgam District of Jammu and Kashmir, reports Daily Excelsior. A police officer said that militants entered into a room where labourers from West Bengal were staying and fired at them. An Army party reached the spot after hearing about the incident and recovered five bodies from the room. Later, police also arrived and took the possession of the bodies and four of them were later identified as Mursaleem Sheikh, Qamarudin, Mohammad Rafiq, Naeemudin Sheikh and Rafiqul Sheikh from Sagar Digi Murshidabad in West Bengal. Another labourer Zahoorudin from West Bengal also received injuries.
Separately, police and Security Forces (SFs) launched an operation in the Kanilwan area of Bijbehara in Anantnag District in the night of October 28 after a truck driver was killed on October 28 (reported earlier by SATP) and during the search, recovered a dead body, reports Daily Excelsior. “Based on the preliminary investigation, it is learnt that the said individual was part of a group involved in terror crime incident at Kanilwan Bijbehara”, police said.
Meanwhile, Police said that militants fired upon Army’s patrolling party at Drabgam area of Pulwama District on October 29, reports Daily Excelsior. The 183 battalion of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was also deployed there for the area domination outside the examination centre. The CRPF returned the fire. However, militants fled but not before creating panic among the students who were appearing in the examination.