Retired SSP Mohammad Shafi Mir shot dead by terrorists while offering azaan in J&K’s Baramulla

NewsBharati    25-Dec-2023 11:10:53 AM
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Baramulla, Dec 25: In a shocking development, a 72-year-old retired police officer, Mohammad Shafi Mir who was the local muezzin, was shot dead by terrorists while he was giving azaan, the call for prayer, from a mosque in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district on Sunday.

Mohammad Shafi Mir azzan terrorists shot dead Baramulla
 
 
Recalling the moments before Mohammad Shafi Mir was killed, his cousin Mohammad Mustafa, who was at home, said the call for the pre-dawn prayers was being given by a loudspeaker and suddenly it stopped. Mir's last words were "reham" (mercy). The "azaan" had stopped at "Ashhadu Anna Mohammadu Rasool-Allah (I bear witness that Mohammad is the messenger of Allah)", Mustafa said.
 
Police said Mir retired as a senior superintendent of police (SSP) in 2012. He was shot dead by terrorists inside the mosque in the Gantmulla locality of the north Kashmir district's Sheeri area, they said.
"Terrorists fired upon Shri Mohd Shafi, a retired police officer, at Gantmulla, Sheeri Baramulla, while praying 'azaan' in the mosque and succumbed to injuries," the Kashmir Zone Police said in a post on X.
Police have launched a search operation in the area to nab the assailants.
 
Mir had become the local "muezzin" – a person who calls for prayers – and he was devoted to his duties at the mosque, his family members said. Following the incident, a large number of people gathered at Mir's house and at the mosque complex. Mir is survived by his wife, two sons and a daughter.
 
The BJP termed the act dastardly and said terror and terrorists have no religion.
 
"Dastardly act of killing of 72-year-old retired police officer by those who have no religion. The sons of devil can't even tolerate 'azaan'... Terror and terrorists have no religion. Strongly condemn this killing, express my solidarity with the bereaved family," Jammu and Kashmir BJP spokesman Altaf Thakur said.
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