Candlelight vigils are being held in Anantnag and Pulwama in protest of Deepu Sharma’s murder

Srinagar, May 30: Candle-light marches were staged on Tuesday in the twin south Kashmir districts of Anantnag and Pulwama to condemn the death of an Udhampur resident in a terrorist assault in Anantnag yesterday.

According to GNS, a large number of civil society people gathered at prominent spots in Anantnag and Pulwama holding banners and candles in protest of Deepu Sharma’s death on Monday evening.

Local residents requested that the perpetrators be dealt with harshly for this heinous act against a specific group and humanity at large.

Terrorists shot and killed Sharma, who worked with a circus at an entertainment park in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, Friday night, police said.