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Cement factory manager shot dead in Srinagar

Mukhtar Ahmad in Srinagar

Gunmen killed the general manager of the state-owned Wuyan cement factory and critically wounded the deputy general manager in bandh-hit Srinagar on Thursday.

Five top militants were killed at Warnu in the same district in an encounter with security forces.

Top police sources here told Rediff On the NeT that two unidentified gunmen entered the office complex of the guarded Wuyan cement factory at Wuyan on the outskirts of the summer capital and, from a close range, shot general manager Ghulam Mohi-Ud-Din and deputy general manager Bashir Ahmad.

While Mohi-Ud-Din died on the spot, Bashir Ahmad was shifted to Srinagar's SMHS hospital in a critical condition. A massive hunt to arrest the killers yielded no results. No group has admitted responsibility.

Meanwhile, unidentified militants forced their entry into the house of a pro-government militant at village Takibal Lolab in the northern border district of Kupwara and killed three members of a family, including a child. The militants later escaped.

Life in Srinagar was paralysed by the strike on Thursday called by the All-Parties Hurriyat Conference in protest of the raid on Wednesday on the office of the banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front and the arrest of its top leaders, including chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik and his deputy Javed Ahmad Mir.

The arrests triggered protests in the city and police fired warning shots and shelled teargas to chase the protestors away. Shops, business establishments, offices, educational institutions and banks downed shutters in Srinagar and only skeleton traffic plied. Tight security arrangements were also made by the authorities.

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