Migrant Kashmiri Pandit Female Shot Dead By Terrorists

A migrant Kashmiri Pandit high school teacher was shot dead by terrorists in the Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir.

Rajni Bale (36), a Hindu and resident of Samba (Jammu division), was shot at by terrorists in the Gopalpora area of Kulgam where she was employed as a teacher, police said.

The officials said that doctors declared Bala dead on arrival at the hospital after she was injured.

"The terrorists involved in this gruesome terror crime will be soon identified and neutralised," the police said. The entire area attack has been cordoned off to nab the assassins.

Meanwhile, former Jammu and Kashmir CM and National Conference leader Omar Abdullah took to Twitter and condoled the teacher's death.

This is the 2nd killing of a Kashmiri Pandit in the month of May. Earlier this month, two civilians – including Kashmiri Pandit employee Rahul Bhat -- and three off-duty policemen were killed in Kashmir by the terrorists.

These deaths follow a series of killings that have been happening since August 5, 2019, the day when the Union government stripped Jammu and Kashmir of its special status and downgraded it to Union territory while simultaneously bifurcating the region into J&K and Ladakh UTs.