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Security unit cordon disconnected the country aft a violent attack, successful Ganderbal district, Jammu & Kashmir, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. (PTI Photo)
The militants who opened occurrence astatine a campy lodging workers of an infrastructure institution adjacent Sonamarg connected the Srinagar-Leh nationalist road successful J&K were heavy equipped and aimed to origin maximum casualties, constabulary sources said.
Seven employees of the company, which is gathering the Z-Morh passageway adjacent Gagangir connected the Srinagar-Sonamarg road, were killed successful the firing.
The victims were identified arsenic Faheem Nasir from Bihar, Anil Shukhla from Madhya Pradesh, Dr Shahnawaz from Bidgam successful Kashmir, Mohammad Hanif from Bihar, Kaleem from Bihar, Sashi Abrol from Jammu, and Gurmeet Singh from Punjab.
There were astatine slightest 2 militants who turned up and opened occurrence indiscriminately astatine respective parts of the campy the employees were staying in, including the mess, sources said.
“It seems they (militants) were heavy equipped and were astatine the campy bureau for rather a bully magnitude of time,” a constabulary serviceman said. “From what we perceive from the workers, it seems the onslaught was aimed astatine causing maximum casualties.”
Police sources said a squad from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrived astatine the country for forensic analysis. They said the NIA is astir apt to instrumentality implicit the probe of the attack.
This is the archetypal large onslaught connected an infrastructural task successful Jammu and Kashmir. In the past, militants person not targeted large infrastructure projects.
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