Jammu and Kashmir Police claims Lashkar, TRF killed 3 BJP workers

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir police on Friday claimed the militants involved in the murder of a local BJP youth leader and his two associates
Thursday night.A group of gunmen had at around 8 pm on Thursday shot and critically wounded Fida Hussain Itoo, general secretary of the J-K
They were quickly evacuated to an emergency trauma hospital along the Srinagar-Jammu highway in Qazigund area but doctors at the hospital
the assailants came in a Maruti Alto car and opened fire at the trio
militants who carried out the act include a local Nisar Ahmed Khanday, another one namely Abbas Sheikh who was earlier with the
attacks earlier too, as many as 1,690 of them have been provided lodging in various hotels and guesthouses across the Valley which are
guarded by the police and Central armed police forces round-the-clock, whereas 157 others have been provided with security cover on the
Minister Narendra Modi has strongly condemned the killing of BJP workers
They were bright youngsters doing excellent work in J-K
My thoughts are with their families in this time of grief
the Valley, instilling fear among the partymen which the leadership has been trying hard to dispel
It was on its request and directions from the Home Ministry that the majority of the BJP leaders and workers were shifted to safer locations
identified by the police
Bashir Ahmed and brother Umar Bari, who were shot dead from point blank range by two assailants inside their family shop in northern
Bandipore town in July this year, and similar other incidents which came in quick succession caused panic among party workers in the
disassociation from the BJP
However, the party was able to arrest the trend soon by ensuring shifting of those of its men living in more vulnerable areas to safer and
protected locations.