Boy killed in CRPF firing in Kashmir
Protestors clash with police during a demonstration in Srinagar on Friday. Photo: Nissar Ahmad
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17-year-old Kashmiri boy was killed and two others were wounded on
Saturday morning in CRPF firing on protestors in Narbal area of Budgam.
There
were sporadic protests at several places on Saturday over the re-arrest
of separatist leader Masarat Alam and killing of another youth in Tral
in south Kashmir.
Sources said that the CRPF opened
fire on the protestors, who pelted stones on the security forces,
killing Suhail Ahmad Sofi, a class X student and wounding two others.
Sofi, according to doctors, was brought dead to the JVC Bemina hospital.
"Preliminary
enquiry conducted into the matter indicates that the forces deployed
have acted in violation of the laid down SOP," J-K Police spokesperson
said.
A case has been registered over the killing of Sofi.
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