NIA team to visit Gagangir terror attack site in Jammu and Kashmir

By: TP News Date: 10/21/2024 11:53:26 AM

New Delhi :

A National Investigation Agency (NIA) team led by a senior officer is headed to the terror attack site in Gagangir in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ganderbal district where a doctor and six construction workers were killed when terrorists opened fire at a construction site on Sunday.

Sources said a Superintendent of Police rank officer will be leading the NIA team from the agency’s regional branch in the Union Territory and it is expected to arrive at the terror spot by noon.

A doctor and five labourers were killed when terrorists attacked a tunnel construction site on the Srinagar-Leh national highway in the Ganderbal district on Sunday. The unidentified attackers struck as the labourers and other staff returned to their camp in Gund, Ganderbal, late in the evening.