‘I have been shot’: Punjab man’s dire call to his wife during Ganderbal attack
Gurmeet Singh, one of the seven persons killed in an attack in Jammu Kashmir’s Ganderbal, was speaking to his wife on the phone when he was struck by a bullet, his father shared on Monday.
A doctor from Kashmir and six non-local laborers lost their lives, while five others sustained injuries in the attack at an under-construction tunnel in Gund on Sunday.
Gurmeet Singh, 45, hailed from the village of Sakhowal in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district and worked as a construction worker for a company there.
“He was speaking to his wife over a mobile phone when this incident took place… He told his wife that he had been hit by a bullet,” said Gurmeet’s father, Dharam Singh.
The family was later informed that he had succumbed to his injuries, Dharam Singh explained from Gurdaspur.
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