A female university student was killed yesterday as troops cordoned off Kakpora village, 35km south of Srinagar, suspecting the presence of militants.
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In a fierce face-off between security force personnel and ultras, two militants escaped while one was killed in Pulwama district of South Kashmir on Sunday.
The deceased were identified as 19-year-old Danish Farooq Mir, an engineering student, and 22-year-old girl Shaista Hameed, who was pursuing post graduation through distance education mode. “A gunfight broke out in the village during which a militant was killed”, Mushtaq Ahmad, a local resident said.
National Conference General Secretary, Ali Muhammad Sagar Sunday said Governor Narinder Nath Vohra’s rule was no different than the Peoples Democratic Party and the rightwing Bharatiya Janta Party coalition government as both had failed to stop civilian killings.
An army official said that intermittent exchange of firing was going on between the two sides.
“One of wounded persons from Pulwama namely Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din has received bullet injury in abdomen”.
At least 10 other protesting civilians sustained gunshot wounds, and other injuries after police lobbed tear smoke shells. She was evacuated to hospital where she was declared dead, he added.
In occupied Kashmir, complete shutdown, marked by curfew and restrictions, was observed in occupied Kashmir, on Monday, to protest against the killing of civilians including a woman by Indian troops in Pulwama district.
Locals said the government forces fired dozens of bullets to chase the people from the gunfight site. Two militants were able to flee from the spot. “They were pelting stones on security forces”, the spokesman said. “Why have been they killed”.
Curfew imposed in six police station areas in Srinagar after separatist group calls for a strike.
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PDP President Mehbooba Mufti and NC President Omar Abdullah are among a number of the political leaders who condemned the death of the two civilians during the clashes after today’s encounter.
