Srinagar: Unknown gunmen shot at and killed a non-local worker in southern Pulwama district on Saturday evening, officials said.
This is the second fatal attack in less than an hour in Kashmir in which non-local worker was killed.
A police officer said that the gunmen fired upon, Sageer Ahmad of Uttar Pradesh near Litter Pulwama, leaving him critically wounded.
Carpenter by profession, Sageer was removed to hospital, where he succumbed to grave bullet wounds, the officer added.
Earlier unknown gunmen shot dead non-local street hawker Arvind Kumar near Eidgah in Safa Kadal area of Srinagar on Saturday.
At least nine civilians including three members of minority Hindu and Sikh communities and three non-local workers have been killed in a spate of attacks by unknown gunmen during past two weeks.
Jammu and Kashmir Police recently blamed TRF (Tehreek Resistance Front), a militant group backed by Lashkar-e-Toiba, for the recent civilian killings in Kashmir.