Friday, August 13, 2010

10th class student killed as CRPF opens fire in Kupwara
45-year-old woman injured

Shahid Rafiq
Lastupdate at : Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:56:37 IST
Kupwara: A 10th class student was killed and a 45-year old woman was injured when paramilitary CRPF opened fire on a group of people who, locals say, were coming out of a mosque after dawn prayers at Trehgam town this morning.

According to eyewtinesses, as people were coming out of a mosque after offering dawn prayers at Mirpora mohalla in Trehgam town, they were confronted by CRPF personnel on the grounds that undeclared curfew was in force in the area. This led to an argument between the worshippers and CRPF, upon which the latter opened fire and killed a boy, identified as Mudasir hmed Zargar, S/O Gulam Hasan Zargar, a resident of Trehgam.

A 45-year-old woman, identified as Jana Begum W/O Muhammad Sidiq Malik was injured.

Trehgam, 10 kms from Kupwara district headquaters and some 120 kms north of Srinagar, is the birth place of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) founder, Muhammad Maqbool Bhat, who was haged in New Delhi's Tihar Jail in 1984.

After the boy's killing, tension has gripped the entire area and people are trying to defy curfew.

Meanwhile, curfew is in place in Kupwara and Handwara towns as well.

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