Srinagar, July 28, 2011: A 27-year-old Muhammad Ashraf Dar, son of Ghulam Ahmad of ChanKhan Sopore who got engaged last week with the dream to solemnize his marriage in near future, in Sopore was killed by unidentified gunmen. Unidentified gunmen barged into the house of Muhammad Ashraf Dar and fired at Dar on Wednesday night before fleeing under the cover of darkness. This is second killing of civilian in the last five days in the area.
“He (Dar) was innocent. He did nothing,” cries Dar’s mother at her modest house on Muslim Educational Trust road in Chanakhan in Sopore.
Dar was on phone when he was last seen alive by his family members. "Around 9:50 pm yesterday he left home. Gun shots were heard around 10:15pm,” said a relative.
Bullet riddled body of Dar, a labourer by profession, was recovered from his residence near Krankshivan Colony on Thursday morning by locals.
32-year-old Mohsin Ahmed Wani, a resident of Jalabad Sopore was father of three daughters. The victim was the only child of his widowed mother and is survived by a young widow and three daughters, the eldest one just four year old.