Militants shot dead a Kashmiri Pandit and injured another member of the community in an orchard in south Kashmir’s Shopian on Tuesday, once again sending shock waves among the members of the minority community in the Valley. A Valley-based Pandit group said the entire community now feels unsafe in Kashmir.
Unidentified militants fired upon the two Pandit men when they were busy in their apple orchard in the Chotipora area of Shopian, the police said. Sunil Kumar, who was shot at from a close range, died on the spot. The other person, Pitambar Nath Pandit, sustained injuries in the attack and was shifted to the Army hospital in Srinagar.
The police said the terror incident took place around 11.30 p.m. “Two civilians, identified as Pitambar Nath Bhat, son of Arjun Nath Bhat, and Sunil Kumar Bhat, son of Sri Ji Bhat, both residents of Chotigam Shopian, belonging to minority community, received critical gunshot injuries. Bhat succumbed to his injuries. However, the condition of the other injured person is stated to be stable,” the police said.
