Suspected terrorists shot and injured two migrant labourers in Kakapora area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Saturday evening.
A senior police officer said unidentified terrorists fired upon the labourers identified as Shamshad son of Islam Shiekh and Faizan Qasri son of Fayaz Qadri of Batya Zila Bihar at Kharpora Ratnipora.
The officer said the duo was shifted to hospital where their condition was not known immediately, they added.
The J&K Police said in a tweet that terrorists fired upon the duo. However there was no information immediately about their condition.
Following the attack, a joint team of police, army and CRPF arrived in the area and carried out searches for the suspects who had managed to escape from the area under the cover of darkness. Searches were ongoing when this report was filed.
Then attacks comes days ahead of the visit of Union Home Minister Amit Shah who is expected to begin his three-day trip of the Union Territory from Sept 30. Shah will address two rallies in Rajouri and Baramulla districts and he will also pay obeisance at the shrine of Mata Vaishno Devi in Katra.
The Home Minister will also lay the foundation stone from a cancer hospital which is going to be built by J&K Waqf Board in Eidgah area of Srinagar for which the land has already been identified by the authorities.
The attack on migrant workers comes after a long lull in target killings in Kashmir which had triggered a wave of anxiety and fear, prompting the Kashmiri Pandit employees working in Kashmir to flee to Jammu to escape the threat to their lives.
The J&K Police have earlier said that all the terrorists involved in the spate of targeted attacks on migrant workers and minorities in Kashmir have been neutralised except The Resistance Front’s commander Basit Dar who took over the reins of the outfit following its founder Abbas Sheikh’s killing in an encounter with security forces.