KL NEWS NETWORK
SRINAGAR
On the day an all-party parliamentary delegation (APD) visited Kashmir, at least 600 people sustained injuries in day-long clashes in several areas of the region on Sunday, with over 500 of them receiving pellet and tear-gas shell wounds in South Kashmir areas alone, witnesses and reports said.
A 17-year-old boy from Sopore area of north Kashmir sustained “serious” head injury and his condition was stated as critical in a Srinagar hospital.
Majority of these injuries were reportedly caused by pellet firing and with these fresh injuries, the number of total injured in the ongoing uprising that entered its 58th day on Sunday, crossed the 10000-mark while at least 73 people, including two cops, have been killed during this period.
More than 600 have been hit by pellets in their eyes and are on the verge of losing their eyesight in the affected eye.
Mass pro-freedom rallies were held in North, Centre and South Kashmir.
In the evening some APD members tried to meet resistance leaders but doors were shut on them and no meeting could be held.
At least 74 civilians have been killed while as more than 10500 civilians have been injured since July 09, 2016.
