Jammu and Kashmir: Two migrants from Uttar Pradesh have been injured in a terrorist assault in Jammu and Kashmir’s Budgam district on Friday night. The UP natives, Sufiyan and Usman, sustained accidents after being shot at within the Mazhama space of Magam in Budgam.
They have been instantly taken to a hospital for therapy, the place they’re acknowledged to be in steady situation. The non-locals belonged to Saharanpur and have been engaged as staff within the Jal Jeevan Mission, which goals at offering clear faucet water to rural households within the area.
Whereas one in every of them was hit in his arm, the opposite one was shot in his leg. They have been shifted to the SDH Magam hospital. After the assault, the world was cordoned off by the safety forces and a person hunt was launched to nab the militants who attacked the non-locals.
The incident comes amid the continuing safety considerations for non-local staff in Kashmir. Final month, a health care provider and 6 migrant staff have been killed after terrorists opened fireplace at a development web site in Ganderbal district’s Sonmarg space.
The docs and staff have been a part of a development crew engaged on the Z-Morh tunnel, which is being constructed to attach Gaganeer to Sonmarg in Central Kashmir. Chief Minister Omar Abdullah referred to as the assault on non-local labourers “dastardly and cowardly”. Union Minister Nitin Gadkari had additionally condemned the phobia assault on “harmless labourers” who have been engaged within the “very important infrastructure venture”.
On October 24, a migrant labourer from UP’s Bijnaur was shot at in in Batagund of Tral space in Pulwama district. He was rushed to a hospital after bing sot at within the arm by terrorists. Nonetheless, no catridge was recovered in or across the incident web site.
One other migrant employee from Bihar was killed in a terrorist assault on October 18. His bullet-ridden physique was found by locals in south Kashmir’s Shopian district in Zainapora.