Srinagar:Two more non-local labourers were shot and wounded by suspected militants in the Kashmir Valley late Friday evening.
The police sources said that the victims identified as Usman Malik and Sofiyan Ilyas, residents of Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur division, were targetted by gunmen while they were working at a Jal Jeewan construction project on the banks of Sukhnag river in the Mazhama area of the Valley 's central district of Budgam.
"Suspected terrorists fired upon the duo. One of them Usman, 20, received a bullet injury in his right hand and the other Sofiyan, 25, in the right leg but both are stable,” the sources said.
While the duo was evacuated to the sub-district hospital in the nearby Magam where from they were shifted to a hospital in capital Srinagar, the security reinforcements have launched an operation in the area to track down the assailants, the officials said.
J&K has witnessed a spike in terror attacks past fortnight, leaving over a dozen people including three Army jawans dead and several others wounded.
On October 28-29, all the three militants involved in a sneak attack on an ambulance that was part of a military convoy in the Akhnoor area of Jammu and Kashmir were killed in the counteroffensive launched by the Army.
On October 24, a group of militants targeted a small Army convoy with automatic weapons near its Nigeen Post in Gulmarg’s Botapathri area close to the Line of Control (LoC) in the Kashmir Valley’s Baramulla district. In this attack, five people including three soldiers and two civilian porters were killed, and three other soldiers were injured.
Earlier on October 20, a local doctor and six construction workers-both local and non-local- were killed and several others injured in a terror attack at Gagangir along the Srinagar-Ladakh highway in the Valley’s Ganderbal district.
