The controversial pellet guns made a return to Kashmir on Sunday, the day Srinagar parliamentary constituency went to bypoll, claiming one life and injuring scores. Of the seven people killed in the polling-day violence, one succumbed to pellet injuries while others died of bullet wounds as security forces retaliated on violent protesters. The block medical officer of Soibugh in the district said 15 locals had suffered pellet injuries. A senior district health official corroborated the police count, saying of the scores injured by pellets, one had succumbed to his injuries. A senior doctor at Srinagar’s SMHS hospital said at least 13 persons with pellet injuries in different parts of their bodies were brought there.

Source: Hindustan Times April 09, 2017 15:45 UTC