Terrorists have shot useless a Hindu civilian in a centered assault withinside the Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir, police stated on Sunday. The sufferer turned into diagnosed as Sanjay Sharma, a Kashmiri Hindu resident of Achan, who turned into severely injured after terrorists fired at him even as he turned into on his manner to the nearby market.
He turned into shifted to the close by authorities medical institution in which medical doctors declared him useless. Mr Sharma reportedly labored as a protection shield at a bank. “Terrorists fired upon one civilian from minority specifically Sanjay Sharma S/O Kashinath Sharma R/O Achan Pulwama even as on manner to nearby market,” the Kashmir Zone police stated in a tweet.
Police say an armed shield has been deployed withinside the village for the safety of the minority network and an research withinside the be counted is ongoing. After the shooting, Mr Sharma`s Muslim neighbours protested in opposition to the terrorist assault. “This is a blot at the shared Kashmiriyat among the Hindu and Muslim humans here,” one of the neighbours stated.
This is the primary assault on a Hindu civilian in final 4 months and the second one centered assault on a Kashmiri nearby in days. A terrorist shot at and injured Asif Ali Ganai in Anantnag whose father, a police head constable, turned into killed in a terrorist assault final year. There have been a chain of centered killings in Kashmir final year. Many of the sufferers have been migrant people or Kashmiri Pandits.
The killings brought about a wave of protests via way of means of the minority network. Kashmiri Pandits held demonstrations at some stage in which they raised slogans below the important authorities and wondered in the event that they delivered them again to the Valley to get killed.
