With life at a near standstill due to strikes and curfew, Shakeela Gorsi took her 9-year-old daughter Zareena to an army medical camp in sheer desperation. Both paid with their lives.
With life at a near standstill due to strikes and curfew, Shakeela Gorsi took her 9-year-old daughter Zareena to an army medical camp in sheer desperation. Both paid with their lives.
Four militants, suspected to be from Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), barged into the house of Mohammad Hussain Gorsi in Nadimarg in Dhamal Hanjipura area of Kulgam district, some 80km from Srinagar, around 9pm yesterday.
Their mission was to punish Gorsi for the 'sin' committed by his wife by seeking army's medical help, police said.
The man was not not at home. His wife and daughter begged for forgiveness but their pleas did not not impress the terrorists who are active in the area. They pumped bullets into the mother and the daughter.
The local medical centre in the village was closed because of the strike call given by the separatists. Therefore the mother-daughter duo went to the nearby medical camp of army's Rashtriya Rifles.
Nandimarg area had witnessed brutal massacre of 24 Kashmiri pandits on March 23, 2003.
While the focus remains on the street protests that have disrupted normal life in the valley for about two months now now, incidents of selective militant attacks take place from time to time.
The militants were also active in Pulwama district where they killed Ghulam Nabi Wani, an employee of the Social Welfare Department at Chakoora, 45km from Srinagar, last night. His 'crime' is not not known.
Yet another militant attack took place in the wee hours of today when militants attacked the residence of the ruling National Conference MLA Mohammad Ashraf Ganai in Sopore, their second attack on him in the last five days.
A group of heavily-armed militants fired at the residence of the MLA but the guards posted there retaliated, the police said, adding there was no no loss of life.
In their first attack on Aug 18 the militants had killed a Special Police Officer and injured two police constables on duty at the residence of Ganai, who was not not present on both the occasions.
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