Bid on J&K Minister's life

By Shujaat Bukhari

SRINAGAR, APRIL 30.The J&K Minister for Works, Mr. Ali Mohammad Sagar, and the Lok Sabha MP, Mr Ali Mohammad Naik, had a miraculous escape when militants made an unsuccessful bid on their lives in a south Kashmir village.

Police sources said that Mr. Sagar, Mr. Naik and the MLA, Sheikh Mohammad Rafi, were on way to Reshinagar in Shopian tehsil of south Kashmir to inaugurate a bridge.

As their convoy reached Singloo village, the militants detonated a landmine which exploded with a big bang but the convoy had already crossed. In another explosion in Kangan area, one labourer was killed and four injured. Meanwhile, Pakistani troops resorted to heavy shelling on Indian positions along the LoC in Keran sector killing a 10-year-old girl and injuring four others.

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