Terrorists Targeting Mobile Towers, Telecom Shops in Northern Kashmir: Police

Mangalore Today News Network

Sopore, May 28, 2015:  Terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir are targeting telecom towers and those working in telecom-related shops, said a senior police official today.

"There are a large number of people associated with the telecom business and it’s not possible to provide individual security to all of them," said Javed Gilani, Inspector General of Police to NDTV, adding that "militants had installed a communication system on a telecom tower in Sopore, and after we seized it, they started pressuring people."

On Monday, one employee was killed and two wounded when militants fired at a franchise outlet of BSNL, a state-owned telecommunications company in Sopore near Srinagar.

24 hours before that, a grenade was hurled at a mobile phone tower in Sopore. The grenade exploded near the tower without causing any damage.

Posters last week appeared in the same area, warning phone companies to shut down their operations and landlords to end the leases.

"We warn these telecommunication companies to close all networking services, close their offices and stop recharging services as well. We warn the retailers as well to stop recharging the subscribers within seven days," the posters read.

 

Courtesy: NDTV