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ISLAMABAD, (APP): The death toll in the ongoing
Kashmir Intifada has risen to 51 with the killing of another
Kashmiri youth by Indian forces in Awantipora area of Pulwama
district, Indian Held Kashmir (IHK) on Saturday.
Indian police resorted to firing and teargas shelling on
peaceful demonstrators who were protesting at Charsoo in
Awantipora area of the district against the civilian killings by
Indian forces during the ongoing Intifada. One of the critical
injured youth, Mushtaq Ahmed Butt, succumbed when he was being
shifted to a hospital in Srinagar, KMS reported.
Dozens of youth were also injured, some of them critically,
due to the use of excessive force by Indian troops and police on
peaceful demonstrations in Srinagar, Ganderbal, Tral, Pulwama,
Kulgam, Khudwani, Qaimooh, Islamabad, Kokarnag, Qazigund, Shopian,
Sopore, Pattan, Baramulla and Bandipora areas in IHK.