In the third attack within a span of few hours, gunmen shot dead a civilian in Hajin of Jammu and Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Tuesday evening.
An official said that the gunmen fired upon one Mohammad Shafi at Shahgund, leaving him critically injured.
Shafi, the Sumo Stand Naidkhai president, was removed to hospital but succumbed to the wounds before being admitted.
The doctors declared him brought dead on arrival.
This is the third attack within few hours in the valley. Earlier gunmen shot dead the owner of Bindroo medicate Makhan Lal Bindroo at Iqbal Park and a non-local vendor near Madina Chowk Lalbazar in Srinagar.
The deceased person has been identified as Virender Paswan resident of Bhagalpur in Bihar.
He was presently residing at Alamgari Bazar in Zadibal.