Astreet hawker from Bihar and a labourer from Uttar Pradesh were killed in two back-to-back attacks by terrorists in J&K on Saturday. These incidents are the latest in a spate of terror-related attacks in Jammu and Kashmir in recent weeks.The first incident took place in Srinagar’s Eidgah area at around 6.40 pm on Saturday evening when suspected terrorists opened fire on 36-year-old Arvind Kumar. This is the same area where another street hawker, Virendra Paswan, was killed by terrorists earlier this month.Following the attack, Kumar was rushed to Government Medical College Srinagar (SMHS) where doctors declared him dead on arrival.The second attack took place in Pulwama’s Litter where suspected terrorists opened fire at one Sagir Ahmad.A resident of Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh who worked in J&K’s Pulwama as a carpenter, Ahmad was critically injured in the attack and succumbed to injuries at a local hospital.Reacting to the attacks, former J&K chief minister Mehbooba Mufti said in a tweet, “An innocent civilian on his way home to his wife & kids,a non local street vendor eking out a living or troops in Poonch.None of these people deserved to die.””One wonders what will it take for GOI to realise that its policies have been a monumental failure in J&K & at what cost,” the PDP leader asked.
