Sarpanch shot dead in militant attack in Anantnag village

Tribune News Service
Anantnag, June 8

Militants fatally shot a sarpanch from the Congress party in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Monday, police said.

Police said militants fired at 40-year-old Ajay Pandita, a sarpanch of Lokbowan Larkipora, leaving him critically wounded.

“He was taken to hospital where doctors declared him brought dead,” a police officer said.

Police said the sarpanch had gone to work in his orchard.

The area was cordoned by joint forces soon after the shooting.

Four local militants were killed in a gunfight with security forces in south Kashmir’s Shopian district earlier in the day. This was the second encounter in Shopian district in two days—five local militants were killed in an encounter on Sunday.

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