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Shopkeeper killed in Valley rebel 'backlash'
A 32-year-old shopkeeper fell to the bullets of suspected militants in a south Kashmir village on Wednesday, police attributing the death to the partial resumption of business activities in the Valley.
Shopkeeper Mehraj ud din Zargar was killed outside his shop in the volatile Tral area in the afternoon. He is the second shopkeeper to die in suspected militant action over the past three months.
On August 30, unidentified gunmen had shot dead a 65-year-old shopkeeper, Ghulam Mohammad Mir, at Parimpora in Srinagar.
Atul Goyal, deputy inspector-general of police, south Kashmir, said the killing was apparently carried out to "terrorise" the business community but parried questions on whether Zargar's shop was shut or open when he was shot.
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