Cries and shrieks rent the air when the sister of slain class IX student placed a school uniform shirt on her brother's body at Pinjoora Village of Shopian district on Thursday.
Class IX student Umar Kumar was killed after he was hit by a bullet in the chest during clashes that broke out after security forces launched an operation to track down a group of militants in Turkawangam village in Shopian district.
However, security forces had to call off operation after militants fled when stone-throwers pelted rocks on the forces and tried to march towards the encounter site on Wednesday evening.
Senior Superintendent of Police, Shailendra Kumar Mishra told DNA that there were reports of five militants hiding in the area. “It was not an intelligence-based operation. Militants attacked the army patrol and in the retaliation, they entered into a house. Later three to four houses were cordoned off,” he said.
Few kilometres away from Turkawangam village, there was an unprecedented outpouring of grief at the residence of teenager killed in the clashes
Every eye became moist when deceased teenager's sister brought out the shirt of his school uniform and placed on her brother's body. Cries and wails rent the air as Umar was taken for burial.
"We will never forget sacrifices rendered by martyrs. we are duty bound to carry their mission till its logical conclusion. We will never surrender and will pursue the mission of martyrs, despite terror unleashed by brutal authorities", said Joint Resistance Leadership of Separatists.
Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL), is a conglomerate of Hurriyat hawk Syed Ali Shah Geelani, moderate Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik, who spearheaded the 2016 unrest in Kashmir
A joint consultation meeting between the three leaders was held at Geelani’s residence, in which leaders deliberated upon the recent appalling situations in state.
Resistance leadership won’t allow any body to deceive nation and bargain against the sacrifices of martyrs, said a spokesman of JRL
