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Shop keeper shot dead by gunmen in Kashmir's Sopore town

| | Jun 13, 2015, at 08:11 pm
Srinagar, June 13 (IBNS) Unidentified gunmen shot dead the president of a "Beopar Mandal" in north Kashmir's Sopore town late Friday evening, police said.

According to reports, men with AK47 shot Khurshid Ahmad Bhat from close range when he was was on way to his home after closing his shop. He died on the spot, officials said.

The killing of Bhat comes after Tuesday when  Tehreek-e-Hurriyat activist Sheikh Altaf-ur-Rehman was shot dead in the area.
 
No militant outfit has claimed responsibility for the killing so far, which was second in this week in Sopore area.

(Reporting by Saleem Iqbal Qadri)

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