Two migrant workers injured in targeted attack in Anantnag

POLICE DID NOT IDENTIFY THE INJURED WORKERS; 2ND TARGETED ATTACK ON NON-LOCALS IN ANANTNAG DISTRICT THIS MONTH

SRINAGAR: Two migrant workers were injured in a targeted attack in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Saturday evening.

This is the second targeted attack on non-locals in the Anantnag district this month.

Police said that non-local labourers were attacked in the Rakh Momin area of south Kashmir. “Terrorists fired upon & injured two outside labourers in Rakh-Momin area of Anantnag. Both the injured are being shifted to hospital for treatment. Area being cordoned off. Further details shall follow,” tweeted J&K police on its official handle.

On November 3, two non-locals, working in a private school at Bondialgam in Anantnag, were injured in an attack. The injured labourers were from Bihar and Nepal) and were working at a private SAPS school at Bondialgam in the Anantnag district. On October 18, two nonlocal labourers hailing from Uttar Pradesh’s Kannauj were killed after militants hurled a grenade at them in the Harmain in the Shopian district.

LeT militants, handlers booked for threatening journalists online

Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday registered a first information report (FIR) against militants and handlers belonging to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and The Resistance Front (TRF), one of its offshoots, for sending threat letters to journalists in Kashmir.

The accused had issued threats to some news outlets and journalists based in Srinagar through a blog, The Kashmir Fight, blaming them for giving the terrorism tag to banned outfit Jamaat-e-Islami in their news reports. The blog also blamed the news outlets for being “handin-glove with the government”.

“Anybody related to these media houses will be responsible to his/her condition to fall upon them in coming times,” reads the letter attributed to the blog.

“Case registered against handlers, active terrorists & OGWs of terror outfit LeT & its offshoot TRF for online publication & dissemination of a direct threat letter to Journalists & reporters based in Kashmir. FIR No. 82/2022 U/S 13 UAPA, 505, 153B, 124A & 506 IPC in shergari PS.(sic),” Srinagar police said in a tweet.