Terrorists barge into Srinagar school, gun down two teachers

Incident somes two days after three civilians were killed

Suspected militants shot dead two teachers in Kashmir yesterday, police said, taking to seven the number of people killed in the region in less than a week.

The gunmen barged into a government-run school in the Eidgah area of the main city of Srinagar, killing the pair, including the principal, on the spot. No students were present at the time.

New militant outfit

The incident came two days after militants from a relatively new rebel group The Resistance Front (TRF) killed three civilians, including a prominent pharmacist, in three separate street shootings within 90 minutes.

The killings drew wide condemnation from politicians and on social media both within Kashmir and outside.

A statement attributed to the militant group issued Wednesday accused the slain men of collaborating with security forces and said the pharmacist was a local ideologue of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the Hindu nationalist parent organisation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.

The veracity of the statement, issued only in English, could not be independently verified.

Reuters Security forces keep guard atop armoured vehicles, outside a government school after suspected militants shot and killed two teachers in Srinagar.