Srinagar: A 68-year-old Kashmir Pandit businessman who runs one of the Srinagar landmark stores is among the three people who were shot dead by terrorists in Jammu & Kashmir on Tuesday, taking the number of civil casuaties in the terror attack this month to five days.
Makan Lal Bindroo, owner of Bindroo Medicate in Iqbal Park, took four bullets in the stomach when the pistolwielding terrorist fired it from the point-blank distance after covering the pharmacy.
He was declared dead on arrival at the SMHS Hospital.
In an hour’s attack on Bindroo, terrorists killed Bhelpuri vendors from Bihar’s Bhagalpur in Alamgari Bazar in the old Zadbal City neighborhood.
The man who was killed was identified as Paswan Virender.
In the third attack of the day, terrorists were further injured by the Bandipora taxi association, Mohammad Shafi Lone, in Shahgund Hajin in this district.
He died before the doctor could take care of him.
Pakistani-supported TRF claims responsibility for the three attacks.
TRF, Affiliate Lashkar-e-Taiba, has become one of the clothes that is more active in Kashmir since last year.
Bindroo’s murder came less than four months after the leading Kashmiri Pandit, BJP Board member Rakesh Pandita, was shot dead at Pulwama Kashmir Selatan.
Bindroo was respected inside and outside the community because he was among the few who stood firmly before Kashmir Pandit Exodus in the early 90’s and continued to live and do business in Srinagar.
“What terrible news! I have been told that he never left during the top of the militancy and remained with his shop open.
I condemn this murder …” Former CM Omar Abdullah tweeted.
“He never left the valley.
And terrorists made him pay for it,” said the conference chief of the conference of the pack of alone while condemning the murder.
CPM leader Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami said he had no words to condemn the cruel act.
BJP also condemned the murder.