Possibly two foreign militants involved in Ganderbal attack: LG Manoj Sinha

SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Monday said two foreign militants, who have possibly infiltrated from north Kashmir’s Bandipora area, were involved in an attack that left seven people dead in Ganderbal district a day before.

A doctor and six labourers were killed when militants struck a tunnel-construction site on the Srinagar-Leh national highway in Ganderbal on Sunday, officials said.

The unidentified militants carried out the attack when the labourers and other staff working on the tunnel project at Ganderbal’s Gund had returned to their camp late in the evening, they added.

Sinha said police and other security forces have been given instructions and full freedom to track down and eliminate the perpetrators of the heinous act.

“According to an initial investigation, two people with masks covering their faces — both possibly foreign militants — entered the mess of the company constructing the Z-morh tunnel and opened indiscriminate fire. Seven people were killed and four injured,” he said.

Sinha further said both the militants reportedly infiltrated from the Bandipora area of north Kashmir. “They are being tracked and will be neutralised,” he said. (PTI)