Militants this evening shot dead five laboures from West Bengal and injured another while massive clashes were witnessed across Kashmir today in which over a dozen protesters were injured.
A police officer said that militants this evening entered into a room where labourers from West Bengal were staying in Kitrusu village in Kulgam district of South Kashmir and fired at them. An Army party reached the spot after hearing about the incident and recovered 5 bodies from the room.
Later, police also arrived and took the possession of the bodies and four of them were later identified as Mursaleem Sheikh, Qamarudin, Mohammad Rafiq, Naeemudin Sheikh and Rafiqul Sheikh from Sagar Digi Murshidabad in West Bengal.
