In sharp contrast to the their laudatory presence in Uttarakhand, in Jammu and Kashmir, an army goodwill school was attacked by protestors. The miscreants were protesting the death of two men who were allegedly killed by army personnel in Bandipora yesterday.

Irfan Ahmad Gania, 18, and Irshad Ahmad Dar, 25, were, according to their parents, attending a wedding at Markundal village in Sumbal, at 4am when they were killed by the security forces.

However, Rashtriya Rifles said its jawans acting on specific intelligence inputs about presence of terrorists, had cordoned off the area, when there was a burst of gunfire from a house beyond the sanitised area. The army also said one of the two men were shot when he fled when stopped for a security check.


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