[Reader-list] Indian paramilitary forces fire to Kill Kashmiris - Greater Kashmir

[Aditya Raj Kaul]

In Jammu...It was only head...

On 8/14/08, Kashmir Affairs <kashaffairs at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Bullets Hit Protestors' Chest, Head, Abdomen, Heart
>
> NASEER A GANAI
>
> Srinagar,
> Aug 13: Doctors in different hospitals say causalities due to bullet
> injuries were higher as bullets have been fired at upper parts of the
> body including chest, heart and head. They say the troops and police
> resorted to target killing of protestors.
> "Yesterday, we operated
> upon a number of persons having received bullet injuries. We also
> operated upon 15 seriously wounded, among them several died. I tell you
> most people have been shot at from very close range and above the waist
> causing maximum causalities," said a consultant at SMHS Hospital.
> "I
> can understand what would have happened outside. Inside the hospital,
> in the causality ward police fired teargas shells," said Dr Idrees. Six
> persons who were brought dead to the hospital including Imtiyaz Ahmad
> Bhat of Lasjan, Imran Qayoom Wani of Baghi Mehtab, Qamran Mehboob,
> Faisal Showkat and others had been shot at upper parts including neck
> and chest.
> Reports said 29 people have been killed in past two
> days. Doctors describe the shooting above waist as "target killing."
> Bullet injuries in chest, neck and head could not be described as
> firing in self-defence, said a doctor working in Soura Medical
> Institute. He said most of the people who were in critical condition
> have been hit at neck, chest and head. He said a person brought from
> Bemina this morning had been hit in head.
> A senior official of
> the Medical Institute Soura said 50 persons who have received bullets
> have undergone major surgeries in past two days. The official said most
> of the patients who have been operated upon were in critical condition.
> "This is grim situation. I should tell you frankly that half of the
> people who have gone through major surgeries are in extremely critical
> condition. Some are on ventilators. We should pray for their survival,"
> said a doctor working in the Institute.
> Doctors in valley
> hospitals have cancelled their leaves and are in hospitals for past
> four days continuously looking after the injured. Eight persons have
> died in past two days in the Medical Institute. "Among the eight, some
> were brought dead and some died after operation," officials said.
> Doctors
> said had troops and police fired below the waist the causalities would
> have been far less. "In that case it causes less damage than target
> killing," doctors say.
> Rouf Majeed, presently admitted in the
> SMHS hospital, has been shot in his shoulder. Doctors looking after him
> said that he has been shot with pistol. "I was in a protest when army's
> JAKLI troops fired at us. I received a bullet and I was brought to
> hospital by people," he said. He said three other persons have received
> serious injuries in their chest and head and they have been shifted to
> SKIMS.
> Nazir Ahmad of Sumbal had received a bullet in the
> abdomen. Apart from bullets, tear gas shells have been fired directly
> at people. Rouf Majeed admitted in the SMHS has been hit at chest with
> a tear gas shell. "Had it been hit at heart, it would have been fatal,"
> doctors attending him said. Another person, Gowhar Bhat of Dalgate,
> admitted in the SMHS, has been hit at private parts with tear gas
> shell.
>
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