Four people have been killed and 15 others were injured on Tuesday morning in Jammu and Kashmir’s Budgam district as the security forces opened fire on protesters.
Another youth succumbed to his injuries in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district. Officials said, that the death toll reached to 65 in the violence, that erupted in the valley after Hizbul Mujahideen militant Burhan Wani was killed in July.
According to the police control room in Budgam, the incident in Budgam took place at Aripanthan area of Beerwah in the district when a convoy of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) came under attack by protesters forcing them to open fire.
Dr. Fazil Kochak, chief medical officer Anantnag district, informed HT that in the Anantnag incident, the youth died from a bullet injury when forces fired on protesters during the protest in Dialgam area,.
The valley has been extremely tense after two people died on Monday and a 10 years old was critically injured after being hit by a tear gas shell in Bijbehara in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district.
Sixteen-year-old Yasir Sheikh from Batmaloo area in Srinagar was killed when forces opened fire on protesters in the area on Monday. Medical superintendent of Srinagar’s SMHS hospital, Dr Nazir Choudhary informed that the Class 10 student was taken to the hospital with a bullet injury.
Riyaz Ahmad,18 years old, from Tangmarg also succumbed to injuries during a clash last week at Srinagar’s SKIMS hospital in the morning.
Batamaloo was extremely tense on Monday evening as Sheikh’s body was brought back to his home.
While the country had been celebrating its 70th Independence Day on Monday, a CRPF commandant and two militants were killed in a gunfight near a famous Sufi shrine in downtown Srinagar. Nine security personnel were also wounded, three of them were shifted to AIIMS hospital in Delhi.
Separately, the Indian Army has informed that five militants were gunned down while trying to sneak into India from Pakistan.
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