| Mehjoor Nagar Sikh massacre | |
|---|---|
| Location | Mehjoor Nagar, Srinagar district, Jammu and Kashmir, India |
| Date | 3 February 2001 |
| Target | Sikhs |
Attack type | Mass murder, spree shooting |
| Deaths | 6 |
| Injured | 5 |
| Perpetrators | Lashkar-e-Taiba, Hizbul Mujahideen.[citation needed] |
The Mehjoor Nagar Sikh massacre refers to the fatal shooting of Sikhs on 3 February 2001 in the Srinagar district of Jammu and Kashmir, India.[1][2][3][4] In this attack, at least six people were killed in a drive-by shooting and five were injured.[2][5] The Mehjoor Nagar attack was the second big attack on the Sikh community of Kashmir – in March 2000, unknown gunmen committed a mass massacre of 35 Sikhs in Chithi Singh Pora.[6][7]
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