STATE TIMES NEWS
SRINAGAR: Ten Durbar Move employees travelling on a Tempo Traveller from Jammu to Srinagar sustained injuries when their vehicle was attacked by a group of stone pelting youths at Bijbehara on Sunday.
Informed sources told STATE TIMES that earlier in the evening, groups of stone pelters attacked a cavalcade of government and private vehicles carrying back NET candidates to Anantnag after conclusion of their examination in Srinagar. Some of the targeted vehicles were damaged though it was not immediately clear if any of the students had got injured in the attacks at Sangam and Bijbehara.
Sources said that the Srinagar-bound vehicle of the Secretariat employees, including some from General Administration Department, suffered damage and 10 employees sustained injuries. One of them was hit in his head.
The injured employees were given medical treatment at Sub District Hospital Bijbehara. DC Anantnag Dr Syed Abid Rashid visited the hospital, enquired about their condition and arranged their safe transit towards Srinagar.
