Terrorists killed a migrant laborer in Jammu and Kashmir.

Terrorists shot dead a migrant laborer from Bihar in Jammu and Kashmir’s Bandipore today, police authorities reported. The attack occurred at midnight in the Bandipore district’s Ajas sector.

Mohammad Amrez, a resident of Bihar’s Madhepura, was shot and transported to the hospital, where doctors proclaimed him dead on arrival.

Kashmir Zone police tweeted, “During intervening night, terrorists fired upon & injured one migrant laborer Mohd Amrez, r/o Madhepura, Besarh, Bihar at Soadnara Sumbal, Bandipora. He was shifted to hospital for treatment where he succumbed.”

Earlier this year, terrorists increased their attacks on migrants. Targeted killings have increased in J&K since the Modi government repealed Articles 370 and 35(A), which granted the former state special status. In 2019, the BJP-led federal government divided Jammu and Kashmir into two Union territories, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, on August 5, 2019.

The migrant worker was targeted a day after four soldiers were killed in action, and two others were wounded in an attack on an army barracks in the Rajouri district.

This was the first Fidayeen or suicide strike on an army post in Jammu and Kashmir since terrorists struck the Sunjwan camp in the Jammu region in February 2018.

“Army chief General Manoj Pande and all ranks salute the supreme sacrifice of the soldiers who laid down their lives in the line of duty in Rajouri and offered deepest condolences to the bereaved families,” an army spokesperson tweeted yesterday.

Last week, a terrorist strike in Pulwama killed Mohammad Mumtaz, a migrant laborer from Bihar, and injured two others.

Mohammad Arif and Mohammad Maqbool, the injured laborers, were both from Bihar.