KL Desk
Srinagar
A 31-year-old man died in anti-India protests in Kashmir’s Sumbal area on Sunday following the execution of 2001 Parliament Attack convict Afzal Guru.
Tariq Ahmad Mir, a resident of Batwina, Ganderbal drowned in Jehlum when a group of stone pelters was chased, according to eye witnesses, by police in Sumbal.
The 31-year-old man drowned in water when a police party allegedly chased a group of protestors who were chanting anti-India slogans against the hanging of Afzal Guru.
Guru was hanged to death in New Delhi’s Tihar jail on Saturday morning for his involvement in 2001 Parliament Attack case in which nine people had died.
Police official, however, denied the allegations, saying that Mir was trying to turn his boat back to the other side of river on spotting a group of stone pelters which led to the mishap. “There were six people in the boat. While Tariq died, five of them suffered minor injuries,” a top police official told Kashmir Life
In north Kashmir’s Baramulla district hospital, five people were bought to Baramulla and one of the injured from Khanpora was referred to Srinagar.
