Civilian killed during wake for slain Kashmir ‘rebels’
Kashmiri villagers offer prayers for a Kashmiri insurgent over his physique during a wake way in Pulwama, south of Srinagar, on Jun 22, 2017. PHOTO: AFP
SRINAGAR: A municipal was killed and several bleeding Thursday in Indian-occupied Kashmir when confidence army non-stop glow on a throng collected for a wake of 3 ‘rebels’ slain overnight in clashes with soldiers, military said.
Thousands of villagers poured onto a streets for a funeral, chanting slogans opposite Indian order and pelting stones during soldiers who responded with bullets and particle fire, a military officer said.
S P Vaid, executive ubiquitous of military for a territory, reliable a protester was killed in a exchange.
Another military officer, vocalization on condition of anonymity, pronounced during slightest a dozen others were harmed by pellets dismissed by supervision army to sunder a indignant crowd.
On Wednesday night soldiers and counter-insurgency military surrounded a residential area where they suspected armed militants were stealing out, triggering a extreme sell of fire.
Scores of residents afterwards emerged from their homes to whip stones during a soldiers in a bid to assistance a militants escape, a military officer said.
“Three terrorists were killed and 3 weapons recovered from a site,” army orator Colonel Rajesh Kalia pronounced progressing Thursday.
Witnesses pronounced a army blew adult a residence where a ‘militants’ were stealing in Kakapora, 30kms south of Srinagar.
One infantryman was also harmed in a gun battle, military said.
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