Sopore village sarpanch killed by militants in Kashmir
Sources that Ghulam Ahmad Bhat, the village-head associated with an independent party candidate who recently contested the election in Sopore , was shot in Bomia village of Sopore town.
Bhat, 70, was shot in his head near his residence and soon after he was shifted to a hospital where doctors declared him dead.
Police told IBNS that in 2013 the headman was injured in militant attack but survived.
"He had received a bullet in his hand in the shootout and had survived miraculously," sources said.
Suspected militants kidnapped another sarpanch Ghulam Mohammed, 62,and killed him in North Kashmir's Hygam Village of Baramulla
district on Dec 14.
(Reporting by Saleem Iqbal Qadri)
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