Two Kashmir schoolteachers shot dead as civilian killings spike

Female teacher and her male colleague killed inside a government school – the seventh targeted killings in six days.

Assailants have fatally shot two schoolteachers in Indian-administered Kashmir in a sudden rise in targeted killings of civilians in the disputed region, police said.

Authorities blamed the rebels fighting against Indian rule for the attack in the outskirts of Srinagar, the region’s main city, on Thursday.

Police said the attackers fired at a female teacher and her male colleague at the Government Boys Higher Secondary School in Srinagar’s Eidgah area from a close distance and later fled.