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Amid Intense Clashes, Teenagers Laid to Rest in Hajin

November 29

Shabir Khan

Amid massive clashes thousands of people attended the last rites of Slain militants at Hajin in North Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Monday.

Eyewitnesses told The Kashmiriyat that people in thousands assembled at Parray Mohalla to participate in the funeral prayers of teenagers.

Slain Saqib Shieikh and Mudasir Parray were killed along with a Pakistani Lashkar-e-Toiba Militant in a gunfight with government forces at Muj gund area of central Kashmir’s Srinagar district on Sunday.

Soon after funeral prayers, Scores of youth pelted stones on deployed forces who in turn lobbed teargas shells to disperse them.

In the Action of the forces, many persons were injured.