Continuing to target migrant labourers, terrorists on Thursday morning shot and injured a 19-year-old worker from Uttar Pradesh, in South Kashmir’s Batagund village of Tral.

The victim has been identified as Shubam, son of Pritam Singh of Bijnor in UP.

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Police said terrorists fired at him in the Tral area of the Pulwama district. The victim was rushed to hospital where his condition is stated to be stable.

He sustained a gunshot wound on his arm.
This is the third attack on labourers in the Kashmir valley in a week.

Six non-locals and a local Kashmiri doctor were killed on Sunday in a terrorist attack at a tunnel construction site in Ganderbal district.

CCTV footage of the area has captured pictures of two terrorists armed with US-made M4 and AK-47 rifles.

On 18 October, a labourer from Bihar, Ashok Chavan, was shot dead by terrorists in South Kashmir’s Shopian district. His bullet-ridden body was found at Wachi in Zainpora.

Police said his body had four bullet wounds.