At least six migrant workers and a doctor were shot dead in India's Kashmir region on Sunday night when militants opened fire near a tunnel construction site, officials said, days after a new government was formed in the territory.

Gunmen killed at least seven workers, and injured five others, at a key tunnel project in Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, according to the police, making it one of the worst attacks on an infrastructure project in the volatile Indian region.

Gunmen fatally shot at least seven people working on a strategic tunnel project in Indian-controlled Kashmir and injured at least five others, officials said on Monday.

Gunmen in Indian-administered Kashmir raked a construction site work camp with bullets, killing seven people and wounding several others, Indian media reported Monday, updating an earlier toll. Gunmen fired automatic weapons at the camp from forested hills around,

The shooting took place at a construction site of a tunnel being built to offer better connectivity for the Indian army. The incident comes amid a recent increase in militant attacks.

It is the second attack on non-local workers in the region since a regional government was sworn in last week.

Attackers targeted workers from outside the Himalayan region, building a tunnel connecting Kashmir with Ladakh region

Workers were constructing a strategic road tunnel connecting restive Himalayan valley with Ladakh on border with China

Gunmen fatally shot at least seven people working on a strategic tunnel project in Indian-controlled Kashmir and injured at least five others, officials said on Monday.