Srinagar| Oct,18 : Two migrant labourers were on Tuesday morning killed after militants hurled a grenade at them in South Kashmir’s Shopian district , police said. A local hybrid militant of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant was arrested for the attack during a search and cordon operation, officials said.
Kashmir Zone Police in a tweet said that militants hurled a grenade in Shopian’s Harmen area, injuring two labourers, Monish Kumar and Ram Sagar, both residents of Uttar Pradesh’s Kannauj following which they were shifted to the hospital, where they succumbed to their injuries. The area was cordoned off and a hunt was launched to nab the attackers, it said. During the operation, a hybrid militant of LeT, who lobbed the grenade, was arrested, said Additional Director General of Police, Kashmir, Vijay Kumar in a Twitter post. The arrested militant was identified as Imran Bashir Ganie from Harmen, he said. Further investigation and raids are underway, the ADGP said.
