A woman who was injured in a knife attack by unknown gunmen at Bandipora’s Hajin on Sunday evening succumbed to her injuries today. 

Unknown gunmen barged into the house of PDP worker Abdul Majeed Dar of Shahgund area of Hajin in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district Sunday evening with an intention to kidnap him, a local report said.

While searching for the Dar in the house, his wife Shakeela resisted the attempt by the gunmen and in the scuffle received serious injuries in her neck.

She was rushed to the nearby hospital where from she was referred to Srinagar hospital where she succumbed to her injuries, the reports said.

A case has been registered and further investigation has been taken up by the police in this regard, the report added.