NIA team to visit militant attack site in Ganderbal

SRINAGAR: A National Investigation Agency (NIA) team led by a senior officer is headed to the militant attack site in Gagangir in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ganderbal district where a doctor and six construction workers were killed when militants opened fire at a construction site on Sunday.

Sources said a Superintendent of Police rank officer will be leading the NIA team from the agency’s regional branch in the Union Territory and it is expected to arrive at the spot by noon.

A doctor and five labourers were killed when militants attacked a tunnel construction site on the Srinagar-Leh national highway in the Ganderbal district on Sunday.

The unidentified attackers struck as the labourers and other staff returned to their camp in Gund, Ganderbal, late in the evening.

The incident raised serious concern as this was a targeted killing by the militants.

The militants believed to be at least two, opened fire indiscriminately on a group of labourers, which included both local and non-local people.

Two labourers died instantly, while three others and a doctor later succumbed to their injuries. Officials also noted that five individuals are currently receiving treatment for their injuries. (ANI)