Pulwama: Thousands of villagers from several villages of Tral and Rathsuna assembled for the funeral prayers of the slain.
Shakir Ahmad Dar, was killed in a gunfight in Tral’s Reshipora village.
Meanwhile, reports said that government forces resorted to aerial firing and tear gas shelling to break up protests during a cordon-and-search-operation (CASO) in Pinglish area of the township.
Reports said that intense clashes after youth took to streets to disrupt an anti-militant operation launched by the forces in the area.
He was laid to rest in martyrs graveyard at Rathsuna Tral.
