Funeral Procession Fired On by Police
Police fired on a funeral procession for a Kashmiri activist Thursday, killing a close relative of the dead man, witnesses said.
Ashiq Hussain, a businessman, was killed when Indian police opened fire on mourners after they argued with security men guarding the route to the cemetery, said the witnesses, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Police said the firing was accidental.
Hussain was the brother-in-law of Dr. Abdul Ahad Guru, one of the best-known heart surgeons in the country, who was found dead Thursday, one day after being abducted.
The shooting took place outside Guru’s home in a wealthy residential section of Srinagar, the summer capital of India’s restive state of Jammu and Kashmir. Funeral processions with more than 100 mourners are not allowed in the strife-torn Kashmir Valley.
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