SRINAGAR, India, Oct 19: A senior minister in occupied Kashmir narrowly escaped assassination on Thursday night, while 13 people, most of them mujahideen, were killed in the occupied valley, police said.

Mujahideen opened fire on the motorcade of the held state’s Rural Development Minister Ajay Sadotra at Narabal, 15 kilometres north of Srinagar, police said.

It was the second attack by the Mujahideen on a top official in one day, police said.

The Mujahideen shot at the minister’s motorcade with automatic rifles for 10 minutes. Sodotra escaped unharmed.

Just hours earlier, two rifle grenades were fired at a rally by Works Minister Ali Mohammad Sagar in Baramulla, 55 kilometres north of Srinagar.—AFP