Unidentified gunmen on Sunday shot at and killed a former militant at Sopore town in Jammu and Kashmir, police said.
"Unidentified gunmen shot dead Mehraj-ud-din Dar, a former militant of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) outside his home in Sopore town this morning. Dar died on the spot," a senior police officer told IANS in Srinagar.
This is the third mysterious killing by unidentified gunmen in the last six days.
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On Tuesday (June 9), the gunmen had killed Altaf Sheikh, a former militant in Sopore town.
On Friday (June 12), Khurshid Ahmed Bhatt, an activist of hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani's Tehreek-e-Hurriyat party was killed in Bomai (Sopore) .
No guerrilla group has owned responsibility for these killings.
Geelani has blamed 'Indian agents' for these killings.
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