Unidentified body, seemingly of a non-local, was found lying on road in Soura area of Srinagar, police said yesterday evening.
Srinagar police, in a Tweet, informed that prima facie it seems a case of unnatural death.
It said that inquest proceedings have been started in this regard.
“One unidentified dead body seemingly of a non-local was found lying on road in soura area of Srinagar. Prima facie seems unnatural death. Inquest proceedings started under CrPC 174. Body sent for post-mortem. Public is requested to inform Soura PS for identification of deceased(sic),” police tweeted.
It is another incident of targeted killing, a non-local was killed yesterday by terrorists, in Jammu and Kashmir’s Soura area. According to the sources, the body of the victim has gunshot injuries on his chest. It was also learnt that the terrorists used a silencer during the firing. The deceased has not been identified yet.
Later late night, ‘Kashmir Freedom Fighters’ claimed the responsibility of this killing by posting a picture of the victim with their logo on social media, warning that locals in Kashmir should leave or else they will be killed, the report said.