A 65-year-old man was killed after some unidentified terrorists opened fire at him on Thursday night in the Parimpora region on the outskirts of Srinagar. He was a shopkeeper and reportedly killed for keeping his shop open. Earlier, a truck driver was targeted and killed in Bijbehara in Anantnag district by stone-pelting criminals. The latest killing of a civilian comes a day ahead of Army Chief General Bipin Rawat's visit to Kashmir to review the situation there.  According toJ&K Police, the civilian was immediately rushed to a nearby hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.

A previous tweet from the Kashmir Zone Police said,''terrorists fired at a civilian in the Parimpora jurisdiction of Srinagar whosuccumbed at the local hospital.''A police team was immediately rushed to thespot and the entire area was cordoned off.A search has also been launched bythe security forces to nab the terrorists.

While restrictions continue in parts of Kashmir, Jammu andKashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik had announced several measures, includingfilling of vacancies, to instill confidence in local Kashmiris."The localgovernment is handling the situation with maturity and restraint. Not a singlelife has been lost. Not a single live bullet has been fired. The administrationis putting all resources necessary to ensure that normalcy returns as soon aspossible," the MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said on Thursday.

Referring to the situation on August 5 when the Centralgovernment repealed Article 370, Kumar said there has been "a gradual buta positive improvement" in the situation on the ground.