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SRINAGAR, Oct 21 – At least six migrant workers and a doctor were shot dead in India’s Kashmir region on Sunday night when militants opened fire near a tunnel construction site, officials said, days after a new government was formed in the territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An opposition alliance took power<\/a> in the region this month after winning its first polls<\/a> in a decade, and the first since its special status was revoked and it was split into two federally administered territories – Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The victims of Sunday’s attack were involved in the construction of tunnels meant to provide all-weather connectivity to the militarily strategic Ladakh region, which shares a border with China and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “At least two armed militants barged into the mess of the private construction company and fired at workers who were dining at the time of the attack,” said a senior police officer who did not want to be named.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Six workers and a doctor were killed and five others were injured in the attack, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Non-Kashmiri migrant workers employed in orchards, paddy fields and construction sites in Kashmir have previously also been targeted by militant groups aiming to drive them away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n India’s Interior Minister Amit Shah termed the attack a “despicable act of cowardice”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Those involved in this heinous act will not be spared and will face the harshest response from our security forces,” he said in a post on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (Reuters) SRINAGAR, Oct 21 – At least six migrant workers and a doctor were shot dead in India’s Kashmir region on Sunday night when militants opened fire near a tunnel construction site, officials said, days after a new government was formed in the territory. An opposition alliance took power in the region this month after winning its first polls in a decade, and the first since its special status was revoked and it was split into two federally administered territories – Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh. The victims of Sunday’s attack were involved in the construction of tunnels meant to provide all-weather connectivity to… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42776,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42774\/revisions\/42776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}