Shutdown in Ganderbal parts on second day against local militant’s killing

Srinagar :  A complete shutdown is being observed on Monday in Kangan and Ganderbal towns of central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district for the second straight day.

All the shops and business establishments are closed in Kangan, Nunar, Wayil, Dursuma, Manigam, Dudarhama and Beehma while public transport was also off the roads, reports said.

However, private vehicles were plying normally in these areas.

The authorities had announced closure of Government Degree College and Government Higher Secondary schools at Ganderbal and Nunar area, as a precautionary measure to prevent protests.

On Saturday the M.Tech student-turned-militant Rahil Rashid Sheikh of Nunar was killed along with an associate in a gunfight in south Kashmir’s Shopian district.