‘Islam deplores such behaviour,’ says Mirwaiz on J&K militant attack
Condemning an attack that killed seven employees of a construction company in J&K’s Ganderbal district, All Parties Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said that Islam, like all religions, deplores such inhuman behaviour.
Seven people, most of them from outside J&K, died Sunday when gunmen indiscriminately fired on a camp housing workers of a company that is building the Z-Morh tunnel near Gagangir on the Srinagar-Sonamarg road.
Several people were also injured in the attack, and five of them are undergoing treatment at the Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences in Srinagar.
Mirwaiz described the loss of life “in this manner” as extremely painful, and emphasised that this is “another grim reminder of the unending cycle of violence and uncertainty we are suffering for decades. Pray to Allah for the speedy recovery of the injured and grant sabr (patience) to the families of those killed.”
The families of those killed in the attack will be given Rs 6 lakh from the government under Security Related Expenditure, and Rs 15 lakh from APCO, the construction company they were working for. Those injured in the attack will get Rs 2 lakh assistance.
