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At the ceremonial of Dr Shahnawaz Dar, who was among the 7 persons killed successful the panic onslaught successful J&K’s Ganderbal territory Sunday. He was laid to remainder astatine his ancestral colony successful Budgam territory connected Monday. (Express photograph by Shuaib Masoodi)
Police successful Jammu and Kashmir person picked up astir 50 men for questioning from crossed cardinal Kashmir’s Ganderbal territory arsenic it probes the panic onslaught connected an infrastructure task adjacent Sonamarg that killed 7 employees of a operation firm.
As per constabulary sources, archetypal probe suggests militants who targeted the employees are apt to beryllium infiltrators from Pakistan who made their mode to the territory from Bandipore.
Seven employees, including a section doctor, of APCO Infratech were killed connected Sunday erstwhile terrorists opened occurrence connected their campy astatine the strategical Z-Morh tunnel, which connects Kangan municipality and Sonamarg tourer edifice connected the Srinagar-Leh nationalist highway.
Police sources said that portion they don’t person immoderate credible leads into the onslaught arsenic of now, they person picked up suspects from antithetic parts of the district.
“Each constabulary presumption successful the country has rounded up suspects. They are being questioned to question immoderate credible pb that could assistance successful a breakthrough,” a constabulary root said.
Police sources said that much detentions are likely.
Police sources besides said the attackers apt infiltrated into the Valley precocious . “Our questioning of the survivors suggest that the attackers were not locals. There is simply a precocious likelihood that they were Pakistani terrorists who infiltrated into the Valley precocious from the Gurez sector,” the constabulary root said. A precocious upland scope to the rear of Kangan connects Gurez and Bandipore. “The militants look to person escaped to the forests aft the attack,” said a source.
As per the survivors, connected Sunday evening, 2 men wearing woolen shawls appeared astatine the campsite of the Z-Morh passageway and opened occurrence astatine aggregate locations. While 3 of the deceased hailed from Bihar, 1 each hailed from Madhya Pradesh, Punjab and Jammu. A section doc from cardinal Kashmir’s Budgam was besides among the dead.
The constabulary and information forces are yet to contented a connection connected the attack.
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