KL Report
Srinagar
The body of a tenth class student, Zameer Ahmad Dar who was missing from Sunday afternoon after being allegedly chased by police in stone pelting incident in Ganderbal, was fished out Monday from Jehlum. The death since Afzal’s hanging reached to three.
Zamir Ahmad was a resident of Batwina, Ganderbal. One person was drowned in river Jhelum in Ganderbal district when a group of protestors was allegedly being chased away by police and paramilitary forces on Sunday. Zamir was missing since then and his body was fished out on Monday.Police sources said.
Earlier on Sunday Ubaid Ahmad Rather of Watergam Sopore who was critically injured in clashes, succumbed in SKIMS Sunday night.
On Sunday in Rafiabad area of Baramulla district, four persons were injured, two of them critically, when paramilitary forces allegedly fired upon protesters on Sopore-Watergham road.
Sporadic violence left three people dead in Kashmir despite a curfew that was extended into a third day Monday in the wake of the execution of Afzal Guru convicted in 2001 attack on India’s Parliament.
Mohammed Afzal Guru was hanged in New Delhi early Saturday. Ahead of the execution, authorities ordered people in most of the parts of Kashmir to remain indoors indefinitely in anticipation of protests.
Despite the curfew, hundreds of angry people protested against on Sunday and clashed with troops at dozens of places.
