Srinagar, April 30 (IANS) A 25-year old youth was shot dead by militants in Jammu and Kashmir’s Sopore town Saturday evening, police said.
‘Shams-ud-Din Mir, 25, was shot from close range by militants in Chankhan locality of Sopore town this (Saturday) evening. Mir died on the spot,’ a senior police officer said here.
Mir was a street vendor selling fruits on his hand cart in the town.
No separatist guerrilla group has owned responsibility for the killing.
Sopore, 54 km from summer capital Srinagar, has been a hotbed of separatist violence ever since the armed violence started here in early 1990s.
