The deaths of Satinder Kour and Deepak Kour – a principal and teacher of higher secondary school, has taken the toll to five civilian killings in two days.
The other civilians were a well-known chemist, a street vendor and taxi driver. Makhan Lal Bindroo had been shot dead by militants at his shop in Srinagar’s Iqbal Park. Bindroo’s killing was the first of three on the evening of October 5.
Within an hour, Virender Paswan, a panipuri seller from Bihar, was shot dead by suspected militants about 8 km away from Bindroo’s shop. Shortly afterwards, news emerged of another killing, Mohammad Shafi Lone, a taxi driver had been shot dead in Bandipora district.
J&K DGP Dilbag Singh condemned the tragic incident, saying “These recent incidents of targeting civilians are to create an atmosphere of fear, communal disharmony here. This is a conspiracy to target the local ethos & values & defame local Kashmiri Muslims. This is being done on instructions from agencies in Pak”
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