Sarpanch with ties to BJP shot dead by terrorists in J&K's Kulgam
India Today
Sarpanch Shabir Ahmad Mir was rushed to the nearby hospital where he was declared dead by doctors.
Terrorists opened fire on a village chief, or sarpanch, in Kulgam’s Okey village in south Kashmir today. Sarpanch Shabir Ahmad Mir was immediately taken to a hospital in Kulgam, where he was declared dead by doctors.
This is the second incident in two days when a Panchayat member has been killed in the Kashmir Valley.
A BJP leader, Shabir Ahmad Mir’s wife, Nusrat, is also a sarpanch.
The Valley has been seeing a spike in terror incidents recently.
On March 9, terrorists shot and killed another sarpanch, Sameer Ahmad Bhat, in the outskirts of Srinagar. On March 2, an Independent sarpanch was killed in Kulgam.
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