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Cop, municipal councillor killed in terror attack at Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, Lashkar e-Taiba dunnit?
2021-03-30
[OneIndia] A councillor and a policeman were killed in Jammu and Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
's Sopore on Monday afternoon.

The incident took place when Lions of Islam attacked a building complex, where a meeting of councillors was underway. One person injured in the attack has been shifted to hospital.

"Terrorists fired at Municipal Office Sopore. In this terror incident, police personnel Shafqat Ahmad & councillor Riyaz Ahmad got martyred & councillor Shams-ud-din Peer got injured. Injured shifted to hospital for treatment. Area cordoned off & further details shall follow," said a tweet by the Kashmir police.

Local Lashkar-e-Tayiba and foreign terrorist behind Sopore terror attack

[OneIndia] The Lashkar-e-Tayiba may be behind the terror attack at Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir that took place on Monday. The probe indicates that local Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative, Mudasir Pandit along with a foreign terrorist
...foreign like Pakistani, or something more exotic?
may be involved in the attack in which a councillor and a policeman were killed.

"Preliminary investigation revealed that terrorists had fired indiscriminately upon the Municipal Councillors near Lone Building opposite SDH Sopore resulting in injuries to two Municipal Councillors namely Reyaz Ahmad Pir and Shams-ud-din Pir and a police personnel namely Shafqat Nazir. However, among the injured Councillor Reyaz Ahmad and police personnel Shafqat Ahmad succumbed to their injuries and attained martyrdom. Meanwhile, another injured councillor has been shifted to hospital for treatment of his injuries," ANI reported while quoting the police.
Related:
Kashmir: 2021-03-23 NIA charges 7 Khalistani operatives involved in smuggling heroin from Pakistan
Kashmir: 2021-03-23 NIA charges Hizbul’s gun-runners who were sustaining political-terrorist nexus in J&K
Kashmir: 2021-03-23 Man acquitted in Daniel Pearl’s killing moved to Pakistan safe house
Related:
Sopore: 2021-03-23 NIA charges 7 Khalistani operatives involved in smuggling heroin from Pakistan
Sopore: 2021-03-10 Security forces gun down chief of Al-Badr without any collateral damage
Sopore: 2020-08-19 J&K operation: Security forces kill 3rd militant, an LeT 'commander' who shot dead BJP leader Bari
Related:
Lashkar-e-Tayiba: 2021-03-23 NIA charges Hizbul’s gun-runners who were sustaining political-terrorist nexus in J&K
Lashkar-e-Tayiba: 2021-03-02 NIA arrests 4 drug traffickers who supplied funds for Lashkar’s operations
Lashkar-e-Tayiba: 2021-02-23 Plot to kill Hindus in Bengaluru, Nanded, Hyderabad: NIA charges two Lashkar operatives
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