Eight injured; five-day calm in the Kashmir Valley broken
The five-day calm in the Kashmir Valley was broken on Monday, when a 10-year-old boy was killed in police firing on a stone-throwing mob in Anantnag. Eight others suffered injuries and the condition of one of them is critical. The incident evoked protests in the area.
A police spokesman said here: “A huge mob pelted stones on the Sherbagh police post. The police used tear smoke shells to disperse the stone throwers. Constable Nazir Ahmad was injured. However, the protesters did not relent and the police fired rubber pellets in self-defence. Ten-year-old Irshad Ahmad Parray of Old Iddgah Janglat Mandi got injured. He was declared brought dead at the Sheri Maharaja Hari Singh hospital in Srinagar.”
Firing on youth
Earlier, the police opened fire on a group of youth in the Maisuma locality of Srinagar. Seven persons were injured and admitted to hospital, where the condition of Yasir Ahmad Sheikh is stated to be critical. Yasir is the nephew of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chairman Yasin Malik. “He is in the Intensive Care Unit,” Mr. Malik told The Hindu.
Residents said the youth were playing carom and there was no provocation for the firing. Senior Superintendent of Police Aashiq Hussain Bukhari said an erring policeman “has been suspended and arrested.”
An inquiry was initiated and the guilty would be punished as per law.
Keywords: Kashmir violence, stone-pelting
Why are they still use live bullets? There must be other ways to control stone pelting? If the killing continues the situation will only get worse!!
"Senior Superintendent of Police Aashiq Hussain Bukhari said an erring policeman “has been suspended and arrested.” "
You mean scapegoated. It is not enough to suspend the one cop who 'erred'. To err is to make a mistake. How can someone kill a child by mistake? The fact is that the police are acting outside their orders. They have been asked to use non-lethal means. Every cop who fired live ammo, every cop who used non-lethal weapons in a lethal manner and every 'higher up' who authorizes this continuing brutality against the direct order of the Prime Minister must be investigated, suspended arrested and tried for manslaughter unless overwhelming innocence can be proven.
this news is ridiculous. who says there was calm for 5 days. no one died, does that equal to calm. thousands that protested, dozens that were injured dont count i suppose. does it always need some dead kashmiri to make you understand it is not calm here. that sounds ironic.
alright if that is the cost let kashmir be drowned in our blood. we r ready for that too if that makes the deaf hear and dumb speak on behalf of humanity.
as i speak 1 more injured died from miasuma, and became a news for 2morow.
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