Ama Chopan, 70, of Charar-e-Sharief was critically injured after a fast moving CRPF vehicle hit him near Solina last evening.
He died at the Medical Institute, Soura, a police statement says.
What happened at Solina yesterday is not immediately clear. Police say they have registered a case at Shergarhi Police and have called it a mishap.
But local people have accused the paramilitary of going “berserk” after 5 CRPF personnel died during a militant attack on their camp on Bemina on Wednesday.
They see the incident in that light.
“The youth who was killed in Saidapora clearly showed their (CRPF’s) anger after the Bemina attack,” said Aijaz Ahmed, a resident of Eidgah in Srinagar. “Now this could also be one of the ways to vent their anger, who knows?”
But others fear the anger among the CRPF personnel may take a “disastrous turn”. “Until yesterday they used to open the gate for my car to pass as they knew me. But this morning they shouted at me and asked me to open the gate myself,” said a local journalist at Press Colony who didn’t want to be named.
“And now the CRPF must be fuming as the national news channels show, that they feel let down because no politician attended the wreath laying ceremony,” another journalist said.
(Free Press Kashmir)
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