Pak. Rangers open fire

JAMMU, JUNE 2. Pakistani Rangers opened fire at Indian border outposts in Jammu, Akhnoor and Kathua sectors last night, but caused no injuries or damage. Border Security Force troops retaliated and the intermittent exchange of fire continued till this morning.

In continuing violence in Kashmir, unidentified militants threw a hand grenade on security forces at a bus stand in Kupwara but it exploded near the fuel tank of a bus, killing two persons. Several vehicles parked in the bus stand were damaged.

Militants kidnapped a National Conference leader, Abdul Sattar Parray, from his house in central Kashmir early this morning and shot him dead. A block president of the NC, who was shot at by ultras here last evening, died in hospital.

- PTI, UNI

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