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Young tourist from Chennai killed in stone pelting on tourist bus in Kashmir

Stone pelting on a tourist bus in the Kashmir Valley results in the death of a tourist from Chennai

May 8, 2018

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After stone pelters targeted school children last week they hit another low by targeting a tourist bus killing a young tourist from Chennai in Narbal area of Srinagar on Monday.

While Chief Minister was consoling the parents they narrated a sequence of events leading to the stone pelters attack on their tour bus. The father described his son was hit on the head and received serious injuries.

According to local police, the tourist bus came under attack near Narbal bridge on the outskirts of Srinagar-Pahalgam road in which a young tourist received critical head injuries in the afternoon.

Bleeding profusely the tourist was rushed to Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) but he succumbed to his injuries late in the evening.

The young tourist was identified as R Thirumani (22), a resident of Chennai.

A case was registered and investigations have been taken up, the official sources said.

Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti rushed to the hospital to meet parents of the young tourist and offered her condolences.

While Chief Minister was consoling the parents they narrated a sequence of events leading to the stone pelters attack on their tour bus. The father described his son was hit on the head and received serious injuries.

On the other hand leader of the opposition and former Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah took to Twitter to target the BJP-PDP alliance govt. In a series of tweets on the matter, he said, “We’ve killed a tourist by throwing stones at the vehicle he was traveling in. Let’s try and wrap our heads around the fact that we stoned a tourist, a guest, to death while we glorify these stone pelters & their methods”.

Questioning Prime Minister Narendra Modi Omar in another tweet stated, “the J&K Govt has failed, the CM has failed, the BJP-PDP alliance has failed. How much blood will have to be shed in Kashmir before the Hon PM realizes the gravity of the situation in J&K? When will enough finally be enough”?

“This young man from Chennai died in my constituency & while I don’t support these goons, their methods or their ideology I’m deeply, deeply sorry that this happened at all & that too in an area I’ve been proud to represent since 2014”, Omar tweeted sharing his angst over the incident of stone pelting.

Mirwaiz Umar Farooq also reacted to the incident of stone pelting on his twitter timeline. He wrote, “Deeply saddened by the news of the death of a tourist due to stone pelting. Condemn such hooliganism and rowdiness. It is totally against our ethos of treating tourists as respected guests and brings a bad name to the people’s movement”.