Fazil Allai, a Class VIII student from south Kashmir’s Shopian, was back home in no time on April 11. “They closed the school because of an encounter between a group of militants and security forces in Khudwani,” the 14-year-old told his mother. “Funeral processions will come out soon.”
He took a cold shower soon after and left for Khudwani village, 10 kilometres away, with his elder brother Umar, 16, and other boys from the village.
