Three BJP workers shot dead in Qazigund

Three Bhartiya Janta Party workers including the party’s Yuva Morcha General Secretary for Kulgam were killed in a militant in the south Kashmir district on Thursday evening.

Official sources told a local news agency that militants attacked the trio at Y K Pora following which they were rushed to emergency hospital Qazigund.

However, before the trio identified as Fida Hussain itoo, the general secretary of Yuva Morcha General Secretary, Umar Hajam and Haroon Rashid Beigh could be admitted they succumbed to the wounds on the way to the hospital, they said.

“All three of them were brought dead,” Dr Asima Medical Superintendent Qazigund told a local news agency. A police officer told the agency that investigations have been taken up while the entire area has been cordoned off.