SoporeUnknown gunmen on Friday evening shot dead a 35-year-old man and critically wounded her wife at Herwan Sopore area of north Kashmirs Baramulla. The slain has been identified Mohammad Ashraf.
Sources said that the gunmen fired upon the couple at their residence at Herwan and was rushed to the Sopore district hospital where doctors declared Ashraf, a driver by profession, as brought dead. Condition of his wife identified as Saima is stated to be critical, the sources added. SSP Sopore Javid Iqbal confirmed the incident and said that Ashraf was brought dead to hospital while the condition of his wife is said to be critical.
He said that initial investigations has been revealed that Ashraf was driver by profession.
A case has been registered into the incident and investigations taken up, the SSP said.
This is the fourth killing in Baramulla district in last four days. On April 30, Unknown gunmen had struck at the Old Baramulla town and gunned down three men, in their early 20s, the police said.
Joint Resistance Leadership condemned the killing of three youths by armed gunmen in Baramulla district of north Kashmir and demanded a probe by the United Nations into the incident.
JRL said that any killing on grounds of political or party affiliations was inhuman and un-Islamic and unacceptable to people and leadership of Kashmir.
“Preliminary investigation revealed complicity of LeT in the case. One Pakistan-based and two local militants of old town Baramulla are the principal suspects in this case. Police has started investigation into the matter,” the police spokesman had said.
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