Srinagar, February 22 : At least five persons including four Indian army men were injured in two different road accidents in Baramulla and Budgam districts in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The four Indian troops were injured after their vehicle met with an accident in Choora Sangrama area of the district on Tuesday morning. An official said that an army vehicle met with an accident at Choora resulting in the injuries to four army men, who were immediately flown to nearby MI hospital for advance treatment.“After the accident, the traffic movement on the road was restored,” he said.
A 25-year-old youth was killed after hit by a train near Wanabal area of Rawalpora Rangreth in Central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Tuesday. Sources said that the youth Zakir Ahmad Khatana son of Ghulam Ahmad Khatana of Lolab Kupwara was crossing the railway track when the train came and hit him killing him on the spot, reported news agency GNS.
This is the such incident in last 24 hours as on Monday morning, a man was crushed to death by a moving train at Budgam railway section.
Meanwhile, a minor fire broke out at the Government Medical College (GMC) hospital in Jammu on Tuesday, but no one was injured, officials said. The fire was noticed in the storeroom of ward number eight of the hospital at Bakshi Nagar around 10 am and was swiftly brought under control averting a possible tragedy, they said.
An official of the fire and emergency services said fire tenders were rushed to the spot upon getting information about the fire that is believed to have been caused by a short circuit. The fire was put out at around 10.20 am and there was no loss of life or injury in the incident, a police official said. agencies
Vanished In Thin Air’: Over 600 Children Have Mysteriously Disappeared In J&K
February 22, 2022KIMS KashmirComment(0)
SRINAGAR — Hardly has any day passed when the family of Mehran has not remembered the three-and-a-half-year-old boy who went missing outside his home 13 years ago.
It is still a mystery how Mehran could just vanish from a place, which is densely populated. “We are broken from inside but we have not lost hope. Someday, he will return. We have a firm belief,” said Shabir Ahmad Kalla, uncle of Mehran.
On May 13, 2008, Mehran went missing just months after he was admitted to Canny Mission School Court Road Srinagar.
The family had filed a missing report with Kral Khud police station on the same day, To date, Mehran remains untraceable despite CBI probing the case.
“We didn’t follow the case in the last few years. We individually went to many places in Kashmir and even New Delhi, but Mehran couldn’t be traced. Now we have left it to God. He will reunite Mehran with his parents,” said Kalla.
Mehran is not an isolated case of missing children in Kashmir. A pall of gloom has descended on a family at Awoora in Kupwara district after eight-year-old Talib Hussain went missing on February 15. Since then the family and local administration are working overtime to trace Talib.
Even a reward of Rs 1 lakh has been announced by the local police and Rs 2 lakh by the former Rajya Sabha member Mir Mohammad Fayaz for giving information about the missing child.
National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) data has revealed that 627 children have gone missing in Jammu and Kashmir by 2020. They include 350 boys and 277 girls. In 2020 alone, 230 children including 167 girls and 63 boys went missing in Jammu and Kashmir.
The NCRB data suggested that the recovery rate of the missing children in Jammu and Kashmir is a mere 29.2 percent.
A senior office in Jammu and Kashmir Crime Branch said the department has strengthened its anti-human trafficking units to prevent kidnapping.
“Majority of these cases have been reported from Jammu division. Kashmir is witnessing fewer cases of kidnapping or disappearances. Many missing cases have remained unresolved. Now, anti-human trafficking cells have been established at the district level. Besides, local stations too are working hard to solve missing or kidnapping cases,” he said.(The Kashmir Monitor)