Six workers, doctor killed in terrorist attack in Kashmir

At least seven persons were killed and five others were injured on Sunday in a militant attack at a camp set up near a construction site in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ganderbal district, The Indian Express reported.

One of those killed was a doctor from the Budgam district, while the other six were workers from Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and the Jammu region. The construction workers were employees of an infrastructure company that is building the Z-Morh tunnel on the Srinagar-Sonamarg road. They were staying at a camp set up for them near the Sonamarg health resort along the Srinagar-Leh national highway.

On Sunday, suspected militants opened fire at the camp site as the men were having dinner, the newspaper quoted unidentified police officers as saying. Two militants snapped the electricity and opened fire, unidentified government officials quoted those injured in the attack as saying.