Scores injured as forces go berserk in twin Shopian villages

Government forces went berserk in two villages of south Kashmir’s Shopian district late Monday night, beating local residents and ransacking houses, shops and vehicles. Around 40 people were injured as forces rampaged through Turkwangam village, around 12 kilometres from the district headquarters. According to locals, personnel of Army’s 55 RR and SOG Shopian appeared in the village at around 11 pm. “They didn’t announce any cordon in the area and without any provocation barged into the residential houses and beat up the inmates severely. They didn’t even spare the women…

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