Srinagar
Amid wails and cries, thousands of people, men and women, on Wednesday participated in the funeral prayers of Adil Farooq Magray, a young student who fell to bullets fired by forces in Shopian district in southern part of Kashmir last evening.
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Due to massive rush of mourners, a number of rounds of funeral prayers were held. Mourners had turned up form a number of adjoining villages.
During the funeral procession, people raised massive pro-freedom, pro-Pakistan and anti-India protests. Emotional scenes were witnessed before and after the funeral prayers were held for Adil in his native village of Ganawpora.
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Adil, a college student, was hit by a bullet in his chest after forces “indiscriminately” fired to disperse civilian protesters who pelted stones on the forces who had laid siege to a number of villages to take out suspected militants who were hiding in the area. Police was working on specified inputs.
