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Mobile tower owner shot dead in J&K

| | May 27, 2015, at 04:54 am
Sopore, May 26 (IBNS) Unknown gunmen shot dead a mobile tower owner in Duroo Village of Sopore in North Kashmir, official said.

According to reports, a group of militants sneaked into the house of Gh Hassan Dar and shot him from point blank range killing him on the spot.

On Monday, one person died while two others were injured after unidentified gunmen opened fire at a BSNL showroom in Kashmir's Sopore district.

Earlier, militants issued threats to all cellular companies to wind up their operations and to close down mobile towers.

A grenade was lobbed at the mobile tower of a telephone company on Sunday.

Posters threatening telecom companies surfaced after staff of a telecom company removed a high frequency transmitter operated by
militants from one of their towers in Sopore.


(Reporting by Saleem Iqbal Qadri)
 

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