Kashmiri officials resign

Published April 24, 2014

SRINAGAR: At least 30 fearful local officials have resigned in India-held Kashmir after militants killed two of their colleagues and issued a warning against voting this week in general elections, residents said on Wednesday.

Hand-written notices announcing the resignations were posted in Tral area of the southern Kashmir valley where militants shot dead two officials and another man on Monday night, residents said.

Notices also appeared in local newspapers, while imams read out other resignation letters of officials from panchayat or village councils at mosques in Tral town, residents and media reports said.

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