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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