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ISLAMABAD, (MILLAT+APP): Army personnel have killed an
innocent youth in cold blood in Baramulla district, Indian
Occupied Kashmir (IOK), raising number of civilian killings
in the ongoing Kashmir Intifada to 106.
According to KMS, eyewitnesses said that the soldiers fired
upon the men and women who were busy in paddy fields at Nadihal in
Rafiabad area of the district, last evening.
They said that a bullet hit 22-year-old Waseem Ahmed Lone
and he instantly fell down. He was taken to a hospital where he
was declared as brought dead.
“We, along with Waseem, were working in the paddy field. All
of a sudden, forces fired from one of their three vehicles passing
from the area without any provocation. A bullet hit Waseem
directly,” they said.
Local hospital authorities said that a bullet had hit Waseem
on his back and pierced through his heart, resulting in his death.
“The bullet had damaged his heart, causing his instant death,” Dr
Masood, Medical Superintendent of District Hospital Baramulla,
told media men.
As the news of Waseem’s death spread in the area, thousands
of people hit the streets and staged massive demonstrations
against his brutal murder. They raised high-pitched anti-India and
pro-freedom slogans.
With the killing of Waseem Ahmed Lone, death toll in the
ongoing Intifada has mounted to 106. The Intifada was triggered by
the extrajudicial murder of noted freedom fighter, Burhan Muzaffar
Wani on July 8 this year.
On the other hand, over 100 people were injured, yesterday,
due to the use of brute force on peaceful protesters by Indian
police and troops across the Kashmir Valley.
Indian police also arrested several people including an
activist of All Parties Hurriyet Conference, Muhammad Yousuf Sofi,
from Hajin in Bandipora and other areas of the occupied territory.
The residents of Barzulla, Rambagh and Rangreth in Srinagar
and Ompora area of Budgam said that the forces’ personnel barged
into the residential houses, beat up the inmates and broke
windowpanes of dozens of houses. The people of Dalgate in Srinagar
said that Indian paramilitary troops thrashed pedestrians.