May 30, 2002	Thursday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 17,1423

SRINAGAR, May 29: Unidentified gunmen opened fire on a newspaper office in here on Wednesday, seriously wounding a journalist, police and witnesses said.

Police said three gunmen entered the office and fired at the sub-editor, Zaffar Iqbal.

“Terrorists fired at and critically injured Zaffar Iqbal, sub-editor of Kashmir Images, who has been hospitalized,” a police statement said.

A pool of blood could be seen in the offices of the English-language Kashmir Images newspaper .

Police and paramilitary troops surrounded the offices in the heart of Srinagar.

Last month a Kashmiri journalist was wounded when an unidentified man threw a grenade into the compound of a newspaper office in Srinagar.—Reuters