Srinagar, Nov 5 (KNS): Former Ikhwani and (government gunman) Papa Kishtwari who was accused of murdering many civilians died of cardiac arrest on Thursday at police hospital here
Reports reaching to Kashmir News Service said Ghulam Muhammad Lone (Papa Kishtwari) died of cardiac.
Reports also said he was unwell from couple of days and was taken to hospital for checkup where he died.
He was currently in Central Jail Srinagar in a case where he and his associates were accused of having brutally murdered a contractor Ali Mohammad Mir from Brain Nishat, in broad daylight.
Kishtiwari used to operate in south Kashmir, where villagers accused him of extra-judicial killings during his reign as an Ikhwani commander and an important deputy of slain Ikhwan founder Kuka Parrey.(KNS)