Srinagar: Two teachers, including a woman, belonging to minority communities, were killed by unidentified gunmen in a school in the down town Srinagar on Thursday, official sources said.
They said unidentified gunmen fired from very close range at Satinder Kaur and Deepak Chand, teachers at Government Higher Secondary School, Sangam in Eidgah area of the city.
Both the injured were rushed to hospital where they succumbed to their injuries.
The entire area has been cordoned off and a massive hunt has been launched to nab the killers, they said.
This is the fourth target killing in the Kashmir valley during the past three days. On October 5 a Kashmiri pandit M L Bindroo, a Kashmiri Muslim and a resident of Bihar were killed by unidentified gunmen in Srinagar and Bandipora.
Omar condemns killing of two teachers in Srinagar
Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday strongly condemned the killing of two teachers from minority communities in a school in down town Srinagar.
Taking to micro-blogging site Twitter Vice President of the National Conference (NC) Omar said “Shocking news coming in again from Srinagar. Another set of targeted killings, this time of two teachers in a Govt school in Idgah area of the city. Words of condemnation are not enough for this inhuman act of terror but I pray for the souls of the deceased to rest in peace." (UNI)
