BJP leader and his wife killed by militants in J&K
New Delhi, August 9
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and his wife were killed in a terrorist attack in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district.
Gulam Rasool Dar, BJP’s Kisan Morcha president of Kulgam was with his wife in the car when the terrorists fired bullets at the couple in the Lal Chowk area of Anantnag.
The couple was rushed to the hospital following the attack, but they succumbed to the injuries.
The J&K police blamed the militant group, Lashkar e Taiba for the killing.
A few hours before the killing, the security forces seized a huge cache of arms and ammunition from a hideout in the valley’s Poonch district. The seizures, days ahead of Independence Day, included two AK-47 rifles, four AK-47 magazines, one Chinese pistol, 10 pistol magazines, four Chinese grenades and 257 round AK-47 ammunition, said the Border Security Forces.
