Punjab’s Gurmeet Singh among 7 killed in terror attack in Kashmir

Gurmeet Singh, a resident of Punjab’s Gurdaspur, was among the seven employees of an infrastructure company who were killed in an attack by militants on a camp housing workers on Sunday evening in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ganderbal district.

Gurmeet, 38, is survived by his parents, wife, a daughter, and a son. Gurmeet’s father, Dharam Singh, had also served as an Indian Army soldier. He was a resident of the Sakhowal village in the district.

Gurmeet had been transporting military equipment for several years.

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His body will arrive at his village, where his last rites will be performed.

A doctor and five employees of the construction company, which is building the Z-Morh tunnel near Gagangir on the Srinagar-Sonamarg road, were also killed in the attack. It was the first major attack in the Kashmir Valley on construction workers of a large infrastructure project.