Hundreds of wailing women joined men in central Kashmir’s Budgam on Sunday to participate in the last rites of a policeman and his brother who were fired upon by militants inside their house on Saturday evening.
Special Police Officer (SPO) Ishfaq Dar was fired upon from a close range and died immediately after an attack by militants in Chattabugh, Budgam. Dar’s younger brother Umar, who was shot twice in the abdomen in a bid to save him, succumbed to his injuries on Sunday morning.
Women, many bearing toffees and flower petals, joined men at the graveyard, with several beating their chest over the, “unjustified killing of innocent people”.
