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JAMMU: A govt employee appointed on compassionate grounds after
terrorists
killed his
father
19 years ago suffered the same fate late on Monday at the hands of ultras near his house in
Thanamandi
in J&K’s
Rajouri
.
"
Mohammad Razaq
(40) was shot dead by terrorists when he, along with his brother Mohammad Tahir Choudhary, a Territorial Army jawan, came out of a mosque in
Kunda Top village
under Thanamandi police station.
Choudhary was the terrorists’ target, but he dodged their bullets," police said.
Security forces intensified search operations to track down the terrorists, police said on Tuesday.
"Razaq's father, Mohammad Akbar, an employee of social welfare department, was killed by terrorists in the same village," police said.
This incident comes on the heels of another targeted killing in Anantnag on April 17, when unidentified terrorists shot dead a migrant worker identified as Raju Shah from Bihar.
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