Srinagar, May 2: A Class 2 student of a private school suffered head injury when his school bus was attacked by stone-pelters in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, police said.
A group of miscreants pelted stones on the bus carrying 35 students of Rainbow High School at Zavoora in Shopian, resulting in a head injury to Rehan Gorsai, a police official said.
Rehan was referred to SMHS Hospital where doctors attending on him said his condition was stable..
“My son has been injured in stone pelting, this is against humanity. This could have been anyone’s child,” said the father of Rehan.
SSP Shopian Shailendra Kumar said the area around the attack site had been sanitised and the search for stone pelters was underway.
The incident evoked sharp reaction from Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, who said perpetrators of this senseless and cowardly act will be brought to justice soon.
Shocked & angered to hear of the attack on a school bus in Shopian. The perpetrators of this senseless & cowardly act will be brought to justice.
— Mehbooba Mufti (@MehboobaMufti) May 2, 2018
Expressing his anguish former chief minister and National Conference leader Omar Abdullah said, “How does pelting stones on school children or tourist buses help advance the agenda of these stone pelters? These attacks deserve our unequivocal condemnation .”
The amnesty granted to stone-pelters was meant to encourage more reasonable behaviour but some of these goons are determined to use the opportunity given to them to just pelt more stones, Abdullah tweeted.
The amnesty granted to stone-pelters was meant to encourage more reasonable behaviour but some of these goons are determined to use the opportunity given to them to just pelt more stones. https://t.co/8RAzFhXX3w
— Omar Abdullah (@OmarAbdullah) May 2, 2018
National Conference spokesman Junaid Mattu also condemned the incident and took a dig at separatists, saying “One would expect (Syed Ali Shah) Geelani and Mirwaiz (Umer Farooq) to take a conscientious call and condemn stone pelting while reserving the right to espouse their political ideologies through non-violence. You can’t claim the moral high ground while refusing to condemn this unequivocally.”
Seven tourists were injured when stone-pelters targeted passing vehicles in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Monday evening.
Officials said a group of youngsters pelted stones at vehicles carrying both local residents and tourists at Ashmuqam area of Pahalgam around 8 pm. The injured were part of a group of 47 tourists travelling in four vans.
“There was a big gathering near Ashmuqam, and some fair was going on. That was when the youngsters began pelting stones at passing vehicles. They were shouting slogans,” said Shinil, a resident of Kerala.
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