Mamata Banerjee grieves over killing of 5 Bengali workers in Kashmir

Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee has expressed grief over the massacre of five workers by terrorists in Katrasoo area of South Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Tuesday evening, on October 29, which was the sixth attack over the past two weeks. The workers originally hailed from Murshidabad of West Bengal. The Chief Minister took to Twitter to express her grief on the untoward incident.

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The Jammu and Kashmir police sent out a tweet apprising of the five civilians being killed by terrorists.

Attack on the same day when EU delegation visits Kashmir

The attack happened on a day when the delegation of parliamentarians from the European Union visited Kashmir to talk to locals about their experience after the abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir in August. The bodies of the deceased have been recovered and the one who was injured has been taken to Srinagar for further treatment. The security has cordoned off the area and a massive search operation is going in order to nab the terrorists. Additional security forces have been called in for the operation.

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According to the police control room, Kulgam, “The five labourers killed in Katrasoo area of Kulgam have been identified as Mursaleem Sheikh, Qamar Din, Rafiq Sheikh, Nazim Ud Din Sheikh and Rafiq-ul Shiekh.”

After the abrogation of article 370, the terrorists have been targeting truck drivers and labourers who have come to the valley on duty. On Monday, October 28, a trucker from Udhampur district was killed by terrorists in Anantnag. This was the fourth truck driver to be killed by militants after the abrogation of article 370. On 24 October, terrorists killed two non-Kashmiri truck drivers in the Shopian district. Earlier in October, two terrorists shot dead the driver of a truck having a Rajasthan registration number and assaulted an orchard owner in the Shopian district. A Punjab-based apple trader Charanjeet Singh was killed and a truck driver was injured on October 16 when terrorists attacked them in the Shopian district. The same day, a brick kiln worker from Chhattisgarh was shot dead by militants in Pulwama district.

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