BackSuspected militants kill soldier in a Srinagar market
Soldiers from the CISF were shot while they were buying vegetables at the market
PremiumSrinagar: Suspected militants shot and killed a paramilitary soldier and critically wounded another on Monday in a busy market in Srinagar, police said.
The rebels, armed with a pistol, shot the soldiers from the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) while they were buying vegetables at the market in Jammu and Kashmir’s capital, a senior police officer said.
“One of them died on the spot and the other is hospitalised with critical injuries," the city’s police chief, Ashiq Bukhari, told AFP.
Tens of thousands of people, mostly civilians, have died in the fighting.
But there have been intermittent shoot and run incidents involving police and suspected militants.
No rebel group immediately claimed responsibility for Monday’s attack.
Militants also killed eight soldiers during an ambush on the outskirts of Srinagar, the deadliest such attack in five years, marring a landmark visit by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
“He (the militant) fired on being challenged and was killed in the ensuing gunfight," Colonel Brijesh Pandey told AFP.
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