More than 100 Hindu families have fled Kashmir as panic spread after the killing of a Hindu school teacher in Kulgam, a community leader said on Wednesday.
In a report, Reuters quoted Avtar Krishan Bhatt, who is the president of a Hindu Kashmiri Pandit colony in northern Kashmir’s Baramulla, as saying that around half of the 300 families living in the area fled since Tuesday.
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“They were terrified after yesterday’s killing. We will also leave by tomorrow as we are waiting for a government response,” he said. “We had asked the government to relocate us outside Kashmir,” he told.
Earlier the residents claimed that the police had sealed off a migrant colony area in Srinagar and Anantnag and stepped up security around places where Kashmiri Pandit government employees live.
The local administration did not immediately respond to a request for comment on families fleeing, but the region’s top government official, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, last month assured Kashmiri Pandits that measures would be taken for their security.