JAMMU/SRINAGAR: Terrorists gunned down BJP's Jammu and Kashmir unit secretary Anil Parihar and his brother in Kishtwar town of Jammu division on Thursday evening when they were returning home from work. Curfew was imposed as a preventive measure to deal with any communal situation in the town.

Police sources said Parihar and his brother Ajeet, a State Forest Corporation employee, were attacked by the gunmen around 8.30pm at Tapal Gali, not far away from their residence. They were returning from their shop in the nearby market when they were attacked, SSP Kishtwar Rajinder Gupta said. Parihar used to run a newspaper agency from the shop. "They sustained bullet injuries in the heads and were taken to district hospital Kishtwar where doctors declared them brought dead," said a source, adding that the attackers were lying in wait.

Curfew was imposed by the administration in the Muslim-majority town soon after the killings. BJP workers staged protests in the district after the attack. When contacted, divisional commissioner Jammu, Sanjeev Verma, confirmed that it was a subversive attack. He said it is premature to say anything in this regard till the investigation is complete.

BJP state president Ravindra Raina said the party had information from government sources about the entry of 10 to 15 terrorists into Kishtwar from Anantnag district of south Kashmir.

