Grenade event in Jammu and Kashmir, Tanghdar area, India on Wed 26th October 2022

A terrorist was killed as infiltration bid was foiled by Security Forces (SFs) on Line of Control (LoC) in Sadpura Tangdhar area of Kupwara District in Jammu and Kashmir(J&K) on October 26 (today), reports Daily Excelsior. Police official said one unidentified terrorist has been killed so far in the gunfight as operation continues in the area. | Meanwhile, as terrorist carried out a number of targeted killings recently, 10 Kashmiri Pandit families have left their village in Shopian District of J&K out of fear and reached Jammu city, Kashmir Observer reported on October 25. The residents of Choudharygund said the recent militant attacks have triggered a fear psychosis among the Pandits who lived in Kashmir through the most difficult period of terrorism in 1990s and did not leave their homes. One Kashmiri Pandit Puran Krishan Bhat was gunned down by terrorists outside his ancestral house in Choudharygund village of Shopian District on October 15. On October 18, two Hindu migrant labourers from Uttar Pradesh, Monish Kumar and Ram Sagar, were killed in a grenade attack by terrorist while they were asleep in their rented accommodation in Shopian. “Ten families comprising 35 to 40 Kashmiri Pandits have migrated out of our village due to the fear psychosis,” a resident of Choudharygund village who faced a death threat recently said. He said the village was now empty. “The situation is not conducive for us to live in Kashmir Valley. We live in fear due to killings. There is no security for us,” another villager said. The villagers alleged a Police post was set up away from their village even though they repeatedly sought protection. They said they have left everything in their houses, even the recent harvest of apple. Those who have reached Jammu city are living with their relatives. |   |