Attacks on migrants continue, worker shot at

A migrant worker was injured in a suspected militant attack in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Thursday, the police said.

They said the labourer had been identified as Shubam Kumar, a resident of Uttar Pradesh. He was attacked at Batagund village in the morning. Sources said the victim told the police that he was attacked by militants.

“He was taken to a hospital where his condition is stated to be out of danger,” said a police official. The police said they had launched an investigation into the incident and were ascertaining the details. “We are trying to find out if it was a terror attack,” he said.

A senior official in Srinagar’s Bone and Joint Hospital, where the worker was taken for treatment, told The Tribune that the man sustained a bullet injury on the right hand and his condition was stable.

This is the third attack on migrant workers in the Valley this month. On Sunday evening, a deadly terror attack was carried out on construction workers at a tunnel in the Gagangir area of Ganderbal district. Seven persons, including a doctor, were killed in the attack. The TRF, a shadow outfit of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, had claimed responsibility for the attack.