Indian troops kill Class IX student in held Kashmir

ISLAMABAD: The Indian troops in occupied Kashmir have killed one more youth, a class IX student, in Srinagar raising the death toll in the ongoing Kashmir violence to 104.

Defying the curfew and other restrictions, hundreds of people attended the funeral prayers of the martyred youth. They raised high-pitched anti-India and pro-freedom slogans. The youth, Momin Altaf Ganai, of New Theed area of Srinagar went missing soon after clashes between protesters and Indian forces personnel in Srinagar last evening, the KMS reported.

Locals told the media that as soon as people learnt that Momin Ganai had gone missing, they started a search to locate him. His body was found from an orchard. He was hit by pellets due to which he died of multiple head injuries, they said, adding that the forces fired pellets which hit Momin Ganai and he died on the spot.

With this killing, the death toll in the ongoing Kashmir violence rose to 104. The violence was triggered by the extrajudicial murder of freedom fighter Burhan Muzaffar Wani by Indian troops on July 8 this year.

Besides the killing of 104 persons, over 12,500 people have been injured so far due to the firing of pellets, bullets and teargas shells by Indian police and troops on protesters during the mass uprising.

The clashes were going on till last reports came in.

Meanwhile, the puppet authorities continue to impose curfew and other restrictions in all the 10 districts of the Kashmir Valley on the 71st consecutive day today (Saturday) to stop people from holding demonstrations and marches against the civilian killings.

As use of lethal pellet guns by Indian forces continues, the number of youth with ruptured and bruised eyes due to pellet wounds is rising with each passing day in the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK).

On Friday, at least 20 youth were hit by the deadly pellets across the Kashmir Valley following clashes between protesters and forces personnel at different places.

“We received 17 youth with pellet injuries to one of their eyes on Friday,” a senior doctor at the SMHS hospital in Srinagar which has been treating the eye injury cases for the past 71 days told media men.