Teenager dies in Kashmir in month-old lockdown
The army in Indian Kashmir said yesterday a teenager has died after being hit by stone-pelting protesters in the restive region that has been under lockdown for a month. Asrar Ahmed Khan died on Tuesday night after succumbing to wounds he received on August 6, senior army officer Lieutenant General Kanwal Jeet Singh Dhillon said at a news conference in Srinagar. “This makes it the fifth civilian death in the (Kashmir) Valley in the last 30 days,” Dhillon said. “These deaths have happened because of terrorists, stone pelters and puppets of Pakistan,” he said. But he added: “This is the calmest period in the history of Kashmir, if I can say that.”
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