Dead cop’s wife, Injured militant battling for life in same ICU

A woman who tried to save her husband—she couldn’t—from suspected militants and a militant who sustained a serious bullet injury last evening are critical at the ICU of SKIMS, Soura. Fareeda Bano’s husband Mushtaq Ahmad Sheikh, a special police officer, was killed by suspected militants at his home in Bijbehara. In her attempt to save him, 45-year-old Fareeda sustained critical injuries to her lung and spinal cord. “Her lower limbs are paralysed due to spine injury,” said a doctor attending to her. The militant, Asif Ashraf Malik, 20, who was…

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