Thousands bid tearful farewell to Shujaat Bukhari amid pouring rain; J-K Police arrests one suspect

Jammu | Friday | 15th June, 2018

Summary:

As Shujaat would have wanted it to,” Abdullah wrote on Twitter while sharing a picture of the front page of Rising Kashmir. The Rising Kashmir, which hit the stands as usual, also carried the message that it would not be cowed by cowards who had snatched him from them. "Three motorcycle-borne militants came and fired at Bukhari and his guards," Jammu and Kashmir police chief SP Vaid told reporters earlier. The last rites ceremony of Bukhari, who paid his life for peace, was performed in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district. Bukhari is the fourth journalist to be killed by militants in the nearly three-decade violence in Kashmir..