Srinagar, May 25: A TV artist who along with her 10-year-old nephew were injured in a militant attack in Hishroo area of Chadoora in Central Kashmir’s Budgam district succumbed to injuries on Wednesday.
A top police officer said that militants fired upon the artist (playing role in TV dramas), Ambreen, and her 10-year-old nephew outside their home in Hishroo Chadoora this evening.
Both of them were immediately removed to Chadoora hospital wherefrom Ambreeem was shifted to SMHS hospital, the officer said.
However Ambreen succumbed to critical injuries on way to SMHS hospital and was brought dead by the doctors who attended upon her. “She was brought dead,” Medical Superintendent of SMHS hospital, Dr. Kanwaljeet Singh said. Sources said that Farhan, the nephew of the artists, with bullet injury in arm, is admitted in Chadoora hospital and his condition is stated to be stable.
Meanwhile entire area has been cordoned off to nab the attackers, they said.
