KULGAM: Government forces on Tuesday fired pellets after they were pelted with stones in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district, leaving two persons injured.
Reports said that protesters hurled stones at a forces’ vehicle in Qaimoh town of the district today evening.
The forces’ personnel on board responded by firing pellets at the protesters, resulting in multiple injuries to two of them.
The injured were identified as Fayaz Ahmad Tantray from Tolinowpora and Imtiyaz Ahmad Dar from Ghath.
Both the injured were shifted to a local hospital where from Imtiyaz Ahmad who had suffered pellet injury in his left eye was shifted to SMHS hospital in Srinagar.