Civilian shot dead, non-local vendor injured by militants in separate incidents in J&K

SRINAGAR: Militants on Monday shot dead a civilian and injured a non-local vendor in two separate incidents in Budgam and Pulwama districts of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.

"Around 7:20 pm, terrorists fired at and injured a civilian,

Tajamul Mohiuddin Rather

, near his residence in

Gothpora

area of Budgam in central Kashmir," a police official said.

Rather was rushed to the hospital but he succumbed to his injuries, he said.

In the second incident in Pulwama, a non-local vendor,

Bisujeet Kumar

from Bihar, was injured after militants fired at him at Circular Road, the official said.

The injured has been shifted to the Pulwama hospital, he said.