Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Sept 10: Militants this evening shot dead a Sarpanch in North Kashmir district of Baramulla, two days after a Special Police Officer (SPO) was killed and an Army jawan injured in militant attack in the same district.
Police said that militants shot dead Sarpanch of Palhalan village Ghulam Mohammad Yatoo son of Abdul Karim Yatoo of Rawpore Palhalan as soon as he came out of the Masjid after offering evening prayers.
A police and an Army party rushed to the spot and 29 Rashtriya Rifles and Police have launched a joint operation in the area to trace out militants responsible for the killing.
The attack comes after Saturday’s militant strike in Sopore where a Special Police Officer was killed and an Army man injured in village Brath Kalan by militants.
Both these security personnel had come home for leave and were targeted by two pistol borne militants in the outskirts of the village. Body of the SPO was thrown into an irrigational canal while Army personnel was found critically injured on the bank of it.
Police had launched a massive hunt in the area to trace out the militants responsible for the attack on two security force personnel but so far they have not succeeded in tracing them out.
This is the third strike in Baramulla in past two weeks by militants. Heavily armed group of around 16 militants with majority of them foreigners’ targeted Rs 50 crore Flood Works and Conservation of Wullar lake project in Nigli near Sopore 15 days back. The workers of the project were threatened and asked to stop work on the project which Pakistan thinks is a violation of the Indus Water Treaty of 1960 between India and Pakistan.
Around 300 workers who were working on the project fled away following militant threats resulting in stopping of work on the prestigious project aimed at increasing the water level of the Wullar lake that is shrinking at an alarming rate. Security forces had launched massive operation to trace out the militants responsible for targeting the Wular lake project but so far no one among them was traced out.
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