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SRINAGAR
A youth was killed after hit by pellets during clashes between forces (CRPF and Police) and protesters in Seer Hamdan village of Islamabad district in south Kashmir on Tuesday as the mass anti-establishment uprising completed two months on Tuesday.
The civilian death toll reached 76 since July 9, a day after popular militant commander, Burhan Wani was killed while at least 11000 others were injured.
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 said 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.”
More than 110 protesters were injured after clashes erupted in the area during night.
Local sources said that 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 (35), 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 Islamabad. “She has been hit on her head,” said a doctor at District Hospital Anantnag, adding that she was referred to Srinagar for and admitted to SKIMS Soura for advanced treatment.
Authorities continued with curfew and restrictions in some places for the consecutive 59th day of the mass uprising.
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 Sonawani village in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Sopore-Kupwara road near Wadoora, thousands of people participated in the funeral prayers of teenager Asif Majeed Nagoo, 17, who was hit by a teargas shell/pellets on his head in Wadoora village on September 4.
He succumbed at SMHS hospital in Srinagar on Monday late evening. 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 forces barged into their homes and ransacked their belongings.
According to locals, 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 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 said that unidentified youths 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 forces created havoc when it foiled a pro-freedom rally in the rally. Forces, according to locals, resorted to intense shelling leaving dozens of people wounded.
“The 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 Shopian 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 district hospital Shopian where doctors found him critical and referred him to Srinagar for specialised treatment. Later, he was air lifted from Shopian to Srinagar.
Reports coming from Trehgam said that clashes erupted in the evening when forces were leaving from the area.
Witness accounts coming from Chanapora and By-Pass Lasjan said that youths attacked forces with stones in the two areas.
Following the unified resistance calendar, many all-women rallies were held across Kashmir. One such rally was held in Sopore and another in Rohmu Pulwama.
Srinagar’s Lal Chowk area witnessed revival of business life after 6 PM today as shops were opened and traffic movement increased manifold following “deal” in shutdown by the pro-freedom leadership.
Reports coming from many areas across Kashmir said that people have been taking extra-measures to avoid mid-night raids. “We are blocking inter-Village roads to avoid mid-night raids,” a local from a Srinagar pocket said this late evening.
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