Day 60: One more teenager fall prey to pellets

Scores injured across Valley

5 Dariya News

Srinagar 06-Sep-2016

A youth was killed after hit by pellets during clashes between government forces and protesters in Seer Hamdan village of Anantnag district in south Kashmir on Tuesday taking the death toll off unarmed civilians to 75 since July 9, a day after militant commander, Burhan Wani was killed. The killing according to locals was end result of unnecessary ransacking of houses and thrashing of civilians during the middle of the night in the village when people were in slumber. Witnesses told news agency CNS that a 21 year old Naseer Ahmad Dar son of Ghulam Hassan Dar was hit by pellets causing multiple injuries to him. “Naseer was immediately shifted to Sub District Hospital Seer Hamdan however doctors declared him brought dead.”Earlier, more than 50 protesters were injured after clashes erupted in the area during night. Local sources said that government forces barged into residential houses and thrashed the inmates during nocturnal raids. Locals alleged that forces even beat women and elderly persons resulting in protests and clashes. They said that locals were protesting against force’s highhandedness during which Naseer was killed.Reports added that a woman was also seriously injured during these clashes. The woman, identified as Jameela, wife of Ghulam Mohi-ud-din Sheikh, was critically injured after forces went berserk in Seer Hamdan village early Tuesday. She was initially treated at Sub-district hospital Seer Hamdan where from she was shifted to District Hospital Anantnag. 

“She has been hit on her head,” said a doctor at District Hospital Anantnag, adding that she was referred to Srinagar for advanced treatment.Authorities continued with curfew and restrictions in some places for the consecutive 59th day. The authorities imposed curfew-like restrictions in six police station areas of Srinagar city including Nowhatta, Khanyar, Safa Kadal, M.R. Gunj, Rainawari and Maisuma on Tuesday. Although police said there was no curfew anywhere in the Valley, no pedestrian or traffic was allowed by the forces in areas where restrictions were imposed.Meanwhile in Sonwani village in Langate area of north Kashmir’ Kupwara district, thousands of people participated in the funeral prayers of teenager Musaib Majeed Nagoo, 17 who was hit by a teargas shell on his head in Wadoora village of Sopore in Baramulla district on September 4. He succumbed at SMHS hospital in Srinagar last night. Nagoo was laid to rest amid pro-freedom and anti-India slogans.Meanwhile, the residents of Rangreth area on the outskirts of Srinagar on Tuesday said that the government forces barged into their homes and ransacked their belongings.According to locals government armed forces entered their homes early Tuesday and thrashed the inmates without any provocation. The forces reaction on Tuesday came after a minor stone-pelting incident preceding day. 

“They sealed the area, entered into the houses and thrashed everyone who came in their way. They behaved as they were ‘drunk,” the locals alleged.The locals informed that late Monday evening announcements were made from local Masjid loudspeakers asking all males to come out on roads and females to stay indoors. “Then forces come and fired teargas shells evoking protests.”Another eyewitness said, “CRPF men come every day and ransack the residential houses. They claim some of their arms are missing and they blame locals for it. It just gives them reason to enter our houses and then they break down everything that comes in their way.”A youth was injured during clashes with government forces in Papchan area of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district. He was shifted to Sub-district hospital Bandipora where from he was referred to Srinagar for specialized treatment. Doctors said that the youth had suffered an injury in his abdomen.Over a dozen people were injured in clashes with government forces in Pahloo village of Kulgam in south Kashmir. 

Reports and witnesses said that forces raided the village early Tuesday morning and arrested around 15 persons.  People took to streets to protest against the arrests, however forces used burst teargas shells to disperse them, triggering clashes.Reports from uptown Srinagar Srinagar said that unidentified youth lobbed a petrol bomb on a private truck, causing minor damage to it. The driver according to witnesses escaped hurt. Police however denied the reports saying no petrol bomb was hurled on any vehicle in the area.Reports said that angry protestors burnt down an abandoned forces’ bunker in Mehjoor Nagar area of Srinagar.  Witnesses said that the protestors demolished the bunker brick by brick and later set ablaze its roof on a road.Reports from Qaziabad Handwara said that government forces created havoc when it foiled a pro-feedom rally in the rally. Government forces according to locals resorted to intense shelling leaving dozens of people wounded. “The government forces even showered pellets on those who were present in their houses,” the locals said.A police man was seriously injured in an accidental pellet rifle fire in Imam Sahib area of shopain district. Mudasir Ahmed a police man from armed police was on duty in Imam Sahib chowk when accidently his pellet rifle went off and he was serious injured in his abdomen.He was rushed to dist hospital Shopian where doctors found him critical and referred him to Srinagar for specialised treatment.  Later he was air lifted from Shopian to Srinagar. (CNS)