Jammu terror attacks: Shopkeeper gave a Muslim name,they spared him

Sohan Lal Verma,who has a confectionary shop opposite the police station,said: “I was outside my shop when three men stepped out of an auto. They started to shout slogans,‘Pakistan Zindabad’,‘Islam Zindabad’,and shot at the auto driver thrice. Two of them entered the police station,the third kept firing indiscriminately,” Verma said.

“Then,this man too started to move towards the police station. The auto driver was lying on the road,and I tried to help him. The militant spotted me and charged forward.

“He asked me my name. I said,‘Mera naam Salim Khan hai’. He asked me where I was from. I told him ‘I am from Doda’.

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“He then said,‘Tu Allah ka banda hai,hum tere ko chhod ke ja rahe hain (You are one of Allah’s people,so we are sparing your life)’,and went inside the police station,” Verma said.

Praveen,another shopkeeper in the area,said many more might have died had the terrorists come an hour or so later. “The college in the area starts at 8 am and from 7.30 the street is packed with students,” Praveen said.