Indian troops martyr 54 Kashmiris in June

Srinagar, July 01, 2020 (PPI-OT): In occupied Kashmir, Indian troops in their continued acts of state terrorism martyred fifty-four (54) Kashmiris including two (2) young boys during the last month of June. According to the data issued by the Research Section of Kashmir Media Service, today, these killings rendered two (2) woman widowed and five (5) children orphaned.

During the period, at least twenty-nine (29) persons were injured due to the use of brute force including firing of bullets, pellets and teargas shells by Indian troops and police personnel on mourners and peaceful protesters in the territory. Indian police and paramilitary personnel arrested eighty-two (82) people including an aged woman and molested and disgraced three (3) women during five hundred sixty-seven (567) cordon and search operations in different areas of the territory.

The troops and police personnel also destroyed or damaged twenty-five (25) residential houses and structures and also looted several houses in the month. Meanwhile, Indian troops martyred 148 Kashmiris during violent cordon and search operations in last six months in occupied Kashmir.

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