At encounter site, villagers mourn a masters student and a cricket buff

Two civilians, including a woman, were killed and 16 injured when the Army and police allegedly opened fire on a group of protesters close to the site of an encounter Kakapore in Pulwama, Kashmir.  At Kakapore in Pulwama where two students were killed during an encounter between security forces and militants, friends and family recalled the ambitions and the passions that used to drive Shaista Hameed and Danish Farooq. Shaista, 22, of Lelhar village was sitting in her two-storey house watching a protest by locals when a bullet hit her…

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