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| Seventeenth casualty is a bridegroom in Baramulla | | Guard at DC’s office opens fire on mob; SSP, Dy SP removed | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
SRINAGAR, Jul 19: Raising death toll of the youngsters, killed since June 11th in Police and CRPF firing, to 17, a CRPF guard at Deputy Commissioner’s office in Baramulla today opened fire on a violent mob which was protesting death of a 13-year-old boy in the township on Saturday last. One person has died and several others sustained injuries in the shootout resultant stampede. With the garrison town turning tense afresh and the district headquarters reverberating with anti-India and pro-Azadi slogans, Government has immediately removed Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) and Dy SP (Headquarters) as part of its damage control exercise.
Jinxed Baramulla town rose to a new boiling point when dead body of 13-year-old students, Faizan Rafeeq Buhroo S/o Mohammad Rafeeq Buhroo R/o Mohalla Jalal Sahab was spotted and recovered from river Jhulem near Gurudwara at Kakkar Hamam this evening. As already reported, class 7th student, Faizan, had drowned during the course of a clash between an unruly mob and Police at Azad Bridge in Baramulla on July 17th evening. With the residents protesting his death and alleging that the boy had been pushed into the river by a Police party headed by a Dy SP and the Police claiming that he had drowned over 200 yards away from their position, Faizan’s dead body was recovered after 48 hours of his drowning this evening.
Informed sources told Early Times that a procession of nearly 1,000 people carried the dead body all the way to DC’s office while shouting anti-India, pro-Azadi and pro-Islam slogans. As the procession halted at R&B Divisional office and restricted its expression to the demand of removing some Police officials, besides, registration of a murder case against them, DC Baramulla, Bashir Ahmed Bhat, assured a representative delegation “urgent action” and motivated the angry demonstrators to conduct the boy’s funeral rites.
When the procession was returning to old town and it was negotiating a bridge, another mob of over 2,000 men and women was found heading towards DC’s office. Within minutes, over 3,000-strong crowd converged on the premises of DC’s office-cum-residence. On this point of time, one of the CRPF guards from a sentry box opened fire. One youth, who was later identified as 22-0year-old Fayaz Ahmed Khanday S/o Ghulam Mohammad Khanday R/o Kreeri, got killed and few others sustained injuries. Authoritative sources insisted that the guard opened fire when men in the crowd began attacking structures and attempted to set these on fire. Residents, however, maintained that they were simply shouting slogans to press their demand of removal of SSP and Dy SP and registration of a murder case against them. Some of the officials said that later some youth also tried to set on fire an SPO’s house.
SSP at Police Control Room Srinagar, Javed Farooqui, said that one person, namely Fayaz Ahmed Khanday, was declared as dead at District Hospital of Baramulla and another civilian, namely Ghulam Mohammad Gujri of Mohalla Jalal Sahab, was admitted to SMHS Hospital with a gunshot wound in his hip. He said that immediately there was no information of any one else having sustained gunshot wounds, even as some people had reportedly sustained injuries in the resultant stampede. Local news agency KNS reported that one civilian got killed and 25 others sustained injuries in the shootout and the stampede.
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