KL Report

KULGAM

Clashes broke out between supporters of PDP and NC workers in Noor Abad Constituency of district Kulgam on Thursday.

At least 12 persons including Station House Officer Kulgam Irshad Hussain were injured when hundreds of workers of NC and PDP attacked and assaulted each other outside DC office Kulgam.

Eyewitnesses said that NC and PDP candidates, Sakina Itoo and Abdul Majeed Paddar along with their workers arrived at Mini Secretariat Kulgam to file their nomination papers almost at the same time.

As the candidates were busy in filing their nomination papers, their workers outside clashed with each other. The supporters of both the candidates tried their best to inflict maximum damage on their opponents. “I am witness to all this and I saw how PDP and NC workers engaged in stone-pelting and manhandled each other,” an employee at DC office said.

Eyewitnesses said that even police failed o control the angry workers. “Police used minimum force to curb them just because they were the political workers of PDP & NC. But the fact is that they pelted stones on each other with a clear intention to hit and kill. One stone hit SHO Kulgam Irshad Hussain on his head and he received three stitches,” another eyewitness said.

Deputy Commissioner Kulgam Nisar Hussain said that the administration had made all arrangements to maintain peace and order but the workers of the two parties resorted to violence. He said that at least 12 persons including tow police officials were injured during the clashes.

A police official identified some of the injured as SHO Kulgam Irshad Hussain, Advocate Airaz Mushtaq, constable Mehrajuddin belt number 433, Gulshana Akhtar, Bashir Ahmed Lone, Reyaz Ahmed, Abdul Rashid Mir, Bilal Ahmed, Javid Ahmed Sofi and Abdul Ahad Wani. (CNS)

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