SRINAGAR (APP) – At least 80 people including women were injured by bullets and pellets fired by Indian troops on peaceful protesters in Indian-held Kashmir on Saturday.
According to Kashmir Media Service, no letup in curfew and other restrictions on the 44th consecutive day. The troops even did not spare an elderly couple and shot them injured at Tral in Pulwama while an eight-year-old boy sustained grave pellet injuries in his chest when police fired at him from point-blank range at Nawabazar area of Srinagar.
The couple was grievously injured when troops fired on them at their house in Tral after they tried to resist the arrest of their son. The injured have been identified as Abdul Qayoom Butt, 85, and his wife Nazeera, 80, the parents of Mufti Mujahid Shabbir Falahi, former Jamaat-e-Islami District Secretary Pulwama.
At least, 15 other people were injured when forces during nocturnal raids ran amok in Devsar area of Kulgam and thrashed the inmates. One of the youth, Showkat Ahmad, who was mercilessly beaten up by the forces was referred to hospital in a critical condition.
Doctors say that Showkat has grievous head injuries. In Pampore, doctors and paramedics held protests in hospital premises after an ambulance driver was thrashed by Indian paramilitary personnel men at Tengpora-Batmaloo in Srinagar.
The driver identified as Nisar Ahmad Mir of Kunibal-Pampore was back from SMHS hospital after dropping patients.
