Ganderbal, Oct 21: A National Investigation Agency (NIA) team arrived on Monday noon at a construction site in Ganderbal district’s Gagangir where terrorists gunned down a doctor and six labourers.
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The NIA team is being led by a Superintendent of Police rank officer from the agency’s regional branch in the Union Territory, said sources.
A doctor and six construction workers were killed when terrorists attacked a tunnel construction site on the Srinagar-Leh national highway in the Ganderbal district late Sunday evening. The terrorists struck as the labourers and other staff returned to their camp in Gund, Ganderbal.
The incident raised serious concern as this was a targeted killing by the terrorists. The terrorists believed to be at least two, opened fire indiscriminately on a group of labourers, which included both local and non-local people.