Srinagar hospitals receive 45 youth with bullet, pellet injuries; 3 Critical, say doctors

Some of the scenes witnessed at the SMHS Hospital on Sunday were reminiscent of 2016 when the trauma theatre was flooded with those injured by government forces’ firing. Women wailed outside the theatre as young men waited eagerly to hear from the doctors about condition of the injured. “Oh my God, have your mercy upon us,” a woman in the 50s cried aloud. The woman, who identified herself as Sara from main town Shopian, said the bodies of her son and brother are riddled with pellet ammunition. “Please somebody tell…

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90% Victims hit above waist: Doctors

A large number of persons injured critically in police, army and CRPF action in the past 12 days in Kashmir have received firearm injuries above waist—one of the main reasons attributed by doctors for high incidence of casualties. The SHMS hospital here admitted over 400 patients till Wednesday with different firearm injuries—including bullet and pellet injuries—above waist, hospital sources said. “There is a pattern behind the action by forces on the protesters. At least 90 percent of these persons had firearm injuries above waist—in head, chest, and abdomen,” said a…

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