SRINAGAR, Oct 30: Two civilians and four Mujahideen were killed in occupied Kashmir, police said on Thursday, while the main Kashmiri alliance condemned an attack by suspected Kashmiris group on a telegraph office.
A police spokesman said Mujahideen shot dead two civilians — Rais Ahmed and Mohammed Maqbool, both aged 25 — in separate incidents in the southern Pulwama and northern Baramulla districts late on Wednesday. He said Ahmed was a cab driver.
“We are trying to ascertain why the two were killed by militants,” the spokesman said.
In another incident, Indian troops shot dead a Kashmiri fighter during a two-hour-long encounter in the Zachaldara area of northern Kupwara district overnight, police said.
Security forces killed three more Mujahideen during an encounter in Poonch, 480 kilometres southwest of Srinagar, police said.
Meanwhile, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference has condemned Tuesday’s grenade attack on Kashmir’s main telegraph office in Srinagar.
“People who execute such actions cannot be sympathisers of the movement,” a one-page statement by Hurriyat said. It criticised the lesser-known militant group Kashmir Freedom Forum that claimed the blast.—AFP
