A labourer from Uttar Pradesh was shot and injured by a terrorist in the Tral area of Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir. The incident took place on October 24 morning injuring Shubam Kumar on his arm, a resident of Bijnor. Terrorists opened fire on him in Batagund village, and he was immediately rushed to a nearby hospital, the police confirmed.

This is the third incident in which a local labourer has been targeted by the terrorists in Kashmir within a week. A similar incident took place a few days before where six construction workers and a doctor were killed in a terror attack on a construction site in the Ganderbal district.

Among six, three were construction workers, a mechanical mechanical engineer, a manager and a designer. The CCTV footage from the day of the attack shows two terrorists, armed with an American-made M4 carbine and an AK-47, spending seven minutes at the construction site before carrying out their assault.

The victims worked for an Infratech company named APCO. The company was involved in constructing the Z-Morh tunnel on the Srinagar-Sonmarg highway. The incident took place around 7:25 PM on October 20, while some employees were in the dining area and others were going to dinner, the attack occurred at the camp.

The camp is located just below a road leading to the tunnel, surrounded by barren mountains on one side and the Srinagar-Leh national highway on the other. This attack was the deadliest on civilians in Jammu and Kashmir since June 9, when nine pilgrims were killed after their bus was shot at by terrorists and fell into a valley. On October 18, a labourer named Ashok Kumar Chavan from Bihar was shot dead in Shopian district, with his bullet-ridden body found in the Wachee area of Zainapora.

Reacting to the incident, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah who took office on October 16 called it ‘Cruel.’