Abdul Majid of Malarata locality sustained a tear smoke shell injury on his chest after which he was taken to hospital where he died, a police officer said.
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A 25-year-old youth was killed and about 100 people were injured in fresh clashes in Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday as curfew continued to be in force on the 44th day in Srinagar and Anantnag, besides the highway town of Pampore, whereas security restrictions were imposed in rest of the Valley on Sunday.
More than 68,000 people have been killed since rebel groups began fighting Indian forces in 1989 and in the subsequent Indian military crackdown.
Another showed a crying boy, his head swathed in bandages, as he was comforted by his family, who said he had been wounded by shotgun pellets. The protesters said that the cops manning the road stopped ambulances and refused to allow to them to move between hospitals.
The Indian army has admitted to, and apologized for, the death of a college lecturer in one beating. “We are exercising restraint to avoid collateral damage”.
Meanwhile, normal life remained paralysed for the 45th consecutive day due to curfew, restrictions and separatist sponsored strike following Wani’s killing in an encounter with security forces.
Kashmir is split between India and Pakistan along a UN-monitored line of control, but both claim it in full and have fought two wars over its control. “Our operating theaters are working non-stop”, the doctor told Reuters.
At least 63 civilians have been killed and thousands injured, mostly by government forces firing bullets and shotguns at rock-throwing protesters.
He said the security deployment was further beefed today in volatile downtown Srinagar after a youth Irfan Ahmad was hit by a tear gas shell fired by security personnel in Nowhatta area of downtown yesterday evening.
Indian soldiers killed three suspected rebels in a gun battle Sunday in Indian-administered Kashmir, the army said, as the region reels from weeks of deadly violence between protesters and security forces.
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In Islamabad, Foreign Ministry spokesman Nafees Zakaria said Pakistan’s prime minister has written to the U.N. Human Rights Commissioner in Geneva urging him to send a fact-finding mission to investigate “grave human rights violations in the Indian-occupied Kashmir”.
