Indian troops martyr 20 Kashmiris in October

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ISLAMABAD: Indian troops in occupied Kashmir in their unabated acts of state terrorism, martyred twenty (20) Kashmiris including one in a fake encounter during the last month of October.

According to Kashmir Media Service, these killings rendered one woman widowed and one child orphaned.

During the month, two hundred and seventeen (217) people were critically injured due to the use of brute force and firing of pallets and teargas shells by Indian police and paramilitary personnel against peaceful demonstrators in the occupied territory while three hundred and eight (308) civilians, mostly youth and Hurriyet leaders and activists were arrested.

The troops after barging into the residential houses molested or disgraced at least four (4) women and damaged forty eight (48) houses and looted hundreds during the period.