Kashmiri Pandits and new settlers under the PM plan have come under attack from militants. Post repealing of Article 370, as many as 520 migrants have returned to Kashmir to take up the jobs under the Prime Minister Return and Rehabilitation of Kashmiri Migrants to Kashmir Valley package, reports Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. But the episodes of targeted killing in Kashmir have escalated. aiming not only the minorities but police officials, teachers, and sarpanches.

Speaking to a leading daily newspaper, J&K Police DGP Dilbag Singh said the terrorists are attacking people of different sections of society from different parts of the Valley in order to show their presence.

Attack on migrant workers demonstrates a security failure in the Kashmir Valley. Condemning the attack on migrant workers, the political parties call it a total breakdown of law and order in the Union Territory.

Eight people have come under the attack of assailants since May 7. Let’s have a look at the list of recent targeted killings in Jammu and Kashmir.

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May 7: Ghulam Hassan Dar, an unarmed police constable, was killed in Srinagar’s Zonimar area hours after being shot at in a suspected terror incident.

May 12: Rahul Bhat, a clerk, was shot and killed inside the tehsildar’s office in Budgam district’s Chadoora tehsil.

May 13: Riyaz Ahmad Thoker, a special police officer, was shot and killed in the Pulwama area of south Kashmir.

May 17: Terrorists hurled a hand grenade inside a newly opened wine shop in north Kashmir’s Baramulla, killing Ranjit Singh, 52, and injuring three others.,

May 24: Terrorists killed police officer Saifullah Qadri and injured his nine-year-old daughter in the Anchar Soura district of Srinagar.

May 25: Amreen Bhat, a TV actor, was shot outside her house in Chadoora, Budgam district, central Kashmir and her 10-year-old nephew was injured.

May 31: Terrorists shot and killed Rajni Bala, a Hindu woman teacher from Jammu’s Samba district, at a government school in Gopalpora, Kulgam.

June 2: Vijay Kumar, a bank manager, was shot and killed by a suspected militant inside an Ellaquai Dehati Bank branch in southern Kashmir’s Kulgam.

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