Migrant workers fasten iron rods together at the construction site of a parking lot in Srinagar October 30, 2019. REUTERS/Danish Ismail
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - A rash of killings by separatist militants targeting outsiders in India's Kashmir has persuaded growing numbers of migrant workers to stay away, rather than risk working in road gangs, building sites, hotels and apple orchards in the restive region.
On Tuesday, militants barged into a house in southern Kashmir, marched out six men who had come to work in the orchards and paddy fields, lined them up and shot them.
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