Four people injured by bullets and 20 people with pellet injuries have been admitted at various Srinagar hospitals following clashes after a gunfight in Pulwama district in which Hizb ul Mujahideen commander Riyaz Naikoo was killed.
Dr Nazir Chaudhary, medical superintendent SMHS Hospital,said the hospital received 24 injured people from the Pulwama district tillThursday evening. “All of them are stable,” he said.
While four people with bullet injuries were admitted at SMHSHospital initially, three with limb injuries were shifted to Bone and JointHospital, Dr Chaudhary said. One patient with bullet in abdomen was beingtreated at SMHs Hospital, he said. Dr Chaudhary added that 16 more people hadpellet injuries. “12 of them have pellets in one eye, while one more haspellets in both eyes,” he said.
He said one of the pellet injured was a women in her 40s.
Pellet injuries to eye causes vitreous hemmorage whichresults in vision loss. Over 1000 people have suffered vision loss of varyingdegree in Kashmir in the past due to pellet wounds in their eyes.