Srinagar, June 04 (ANI): Authorities in Jammu and Kashmir battled to restore mobile phone coverage paralysed after a series of attacks by a previously unknown militant outfit on people who cooperated with service providers. Two people have been killed and four others hurt in attacks by a group called Lashkar-e-Islam on landlords hosting cellphone towers and owners of recharge outlets, panicking others into shutting up shop. As many as 2,500 telecom towers were affected, an industry group said, but authorities were bringing them back online gradually as police tightened security. Indian police, army and paramilitary forces in Kashmir, have stepped up patrols and detained more than a dozen people over the attacks. The perpetrators have not been publicly identified and their motives are unknown, beyond warning posters they have hung in areas that they have attacked. The police in the region are considering shifting telecom towers near security posts to improve safety.
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