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12 teenagers among 44 martyred in IoK in September

By APP
October 01, 2016

SRINAGAR: Indian troops in their unabated acts of state terrorism martyred 44 Kashmiris including 12 teenagers and a woman during the last month of September.

According to the data issued by the Research Section of Kashmir Media Service, Saturday, 11 of those martyred were killed in a fake encounter.

During the month, 5,524 people were critically injured due to the firing of pellets, bullets and teargas shells by Indian police and paramilitary personnel on peaceful demonstrators in the occupied territory while 1,035 civilians, mostly youth and Hurriyet activists, were arrested and hundreds of them were booked under black law Public Safety Act.

The troops after barging into residential houses molested at least 284 women and ransacked and damaged 782 houses during the period.