Indian forces fatally shoot another protester in Kashmir
Fresh clashes between Indian forces and protesters have left one person dead and scores injured in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
The 21-year-old protester lost his life when Indian forces shot him with a pellet gun in Anantnag district southeast of the main city of Srinagar on Tuesday.
An unnamed medical superintendent at Seer Hamdan hospital in Anantnag told AFP that the bullet hit near the victim’s heart from close range.
"Naseer had a zero degree pellet injury near his heart. That means he was shot from very close range," the medical official said.
The deadly violence comes a day after Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh said troops would replace chilli-based shells with birdshots to curb the ongoing unrest in the Muslim-majority region.
The metal pellets or birdshot fired from the pump-action shotguns can often blind victims if the fragments hit them in the eye. Hundreds of Kashmiri civilians have sustained serious eye injuries in the clashes with Indian forces over the past weeks.
Indian forces fire live ammunition, shotguns and tear gas at protesters in order to curb the ongoing unrest in Kashmir.
Curfew, a series of communication blackouts and a tightening crackdown have failed to halt some of the largest protests against the Indian rule in recent years.
The government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been under growing pressure over the level of casualties in Kashmir.
At least 75 people in Kashmir have been killed and thousands more injured, mostly by government forces, in a crackdown since early July, when tension escalated in the region.
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