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Watch: Youth Mowed Down by Security Forces Vehicle in Kashmir

The youth has been identified as 22-year- old Adil Ahmad Yadoo.

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A youth was mowed down by a security vehicle in Jammu and Kashmir’s Chattabal area on Saturday, 5 May, as clashes broke out between civilians and security forces following a six-hour-long encounter in which three militants were killed.

The youth has been identified as Adil Ahmad Yadoo.

In a video that has gone viral, Yadoo can be seen running after a security vehicle to pelt a stone, and then being run over by another behind him. As he is crushed by the second vehicle, gunshots can be heard in the background and he is then lifted by other protesters.

Yadoo was then taken to the SMHS hospital where he was declared dead.

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According to a report in The Indian Express, the J&K police called it an “accident” and DGP SP Vaid has asserted that since a death has taken place, a case has been registered and legal course will be followed.

However, the state government has termed the mowing down “deliberate”, added The Indian Express report.

On the face of it, the mowing down of the youngster looks deliberate and police will treat this as such… Instructions to police on being careful at encounter sites are reiterated ad nauseam, but individual responses in the heat of the moment cannot be calculated.
Naeem Akhtar, J&K Public Works Minister to Indian Express
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Hurriyat Chairperson Mirwaiz Umar Farooq tweeted a video of the incident slamming the security forces for committing a “murder” and denying it.

In a Twitter post, he wrote:

(With inputs from Indian Express, and India Today)

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