HP resident among 2 killed, orphange set on fire in Kashmir

Srinagar, Mar 23 (UNI) Two persons, including a shopkeeper from Himachal Pradesh (HP) were killed and one wounded while an orphanage was set on fire in the Kashmir valley overnight, official sources said today.

They said two persons were killed when a vehicle in which they were traveling was hit by another vehicle at Kulgad in south Kashmir district of Anantnag.

The injured were admitted to the hospital where one Irshad Ahmad Dar died.

They said one Ravi Kumar son of Samer Chand Choudary resident of Manhari, district Kangra, HP, working as shopkeeper at Lamayuru Khalsi in Leh died under suspicious conditions.

A single storey house was gutted in a fire incident at Nagipora in Pahalgam last night.

They said some unidentified miscreants torched a single storey Yateem Trust building at Tangmarg.

Police has registered a case and has launched a manhunt to nab the miscreants.

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