Senior separatist leaders Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik on Thursday visited the SMHS hospital to enquire about condition of students injured in a blast at Kakapora Pulwama on Wednesday.
Taking to Twitter, Mirwaiz, who is Chairman Hurriyat Conference-M said he was pained to see the injured students in hospital but thankfully they were recovering well.
“Visited the injured school children from Kakpora, Pulwama at SMHS. Pained to see them in hospital but thankfully they are recovering well. Duas and best wishes for their speedy recovery,” Mirwaiz tweeted.
In a statement issued after his visit to the hospital Malik who is chairman Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, said that Kashmiris were not even safe in their classrooms.
A JKLF spokesman said that Malik along with several other leaders of the amalgam visited SMHS hospital and met with the injured students.
“Yasin sahib met with these victims, talked to their attendants and doctors on duty and enquired about the health status of these injured people,” a statement said.
“…this mysterious blast reminds us of the fact that Kashmiris are not safe anywhere and even not in their classrooms, schools and colleges,” the statement quoted Malik as having said.
“He (Malik) said that our lives are unsafe everywhere and on daily basis we are being forced to shoulder coffins of our dear ones, carry injured to hospitals and bear tyranny and oppression unleashed by the oppressors,” added the statement.
Twenty-eight students were injured in a mysterious blast in their classroom at a tuition centre in Narbal village of the district on Wednesday.