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Sanjay Kumar is battling for his life in Sri Maharaja Hari Singh Hospital in Jammu & Kashmir’s (J&K) capital Srinagar.

On Oct. 17, he, along with his associate, Charanjit Singh—both from outside the state—was shot at by terrorists in an apple orchard in south Kashmir’s Shopian district. While Singh died on the way to the hospital, Tariq Ahmad (name changed for security reasons), Kumar’s local partner, and Rishu Poda, the victim’s brother-in-law from Ferozpur, Punjab, are now attending to the 25-year-old survivor.

“Doctors say he is not out of danger yet. We are praying to god now,” says Poda. “He had three bullets in his body, one in the right side of his chest, another in the back, and one in the arm.”