TERRORIST attacks hit the Kashmir Valley for the second consecutive day on Monday when a labourer hailing from Uttar Pradesh was shot dead in Pulwama district, officials said. The incident took place at Tumchi Nowpora of Pulwama district in South Kashmir when the labourer, Mukesh Kumar, was in the market to buy some vegetables, they said. This incident came less than 24 hours after a terrorist of banned Lashkar-e-Toiba shot and critically wounded police inspector Masroor Ahmed Wani in downtown Srinagar on Sunday when he was playing cricket.

 

Kumar, who was engaged with the weaving industry, succumbed to injuries at the hospital, the officials said. Talking to PTI video, another labourer from Uttar Pradesh, who was sharing a room with the deceased, said that they heard the gun shot but came to know about the killing only after they were asked to identify the deceased. Several non-local labourers have been working in the Kashmir valley for long as carpenters, masons, plumbers, and in brick kilns as well as in weaving industry.

 

The attacks on migrant workers have seen an increase. Monday’s attack was the third such attack this year. A circus employee was killed by the terrorists in May this year in Anantnag district followed by gunning down and injuring three labourers from Bihar in Shopian district in July. Security has been beefed up across Kashmir Valley, especially in Srinagar and South Kashmir areas, following the two terror attacks, the officials said.