<p>Yaseer Hameed Sheikh, shot in Maisuma locality Aug 30 while playing carom with his friends on the road, passed away in New Delhi late Wednesday night. He was a cousin of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chief Yasin Malik.<br /><br />"He had been shifted to Delhi for specialised treatment and died late yesterday (Wednesday) night," a distraught family member of the youth said here.<br />Sheikh was allegedly shot without any provocation.<br /><br />The constable who fired at Sheikh and other youths in Maisuma has been restrained to quarter guard duties and an enquiry ordered to establish the facts, police said.<br />Authorities imposed curfew in Maisuma Aug 30. With Sheikh's death, the number of people who have lost their lives since June 11 in the valley has gone up to 90.<br />Another youth died Wednesday in firing by security forces when a mob torched the main office of the state-owned State Road Transport Corp in north Kashmir's Sopore town, 52 km from Srinagar.<br /><br />"Curfew continues in Srinagar, Sopore, Kupwara, Kralpora, Trehgam, Bandipora, Tangmarg, Ganderbal, Kangan, Budgam, Awantipora, Lethpora, Pampore, Pulwama, Shopian, Kulgam, Qoimoh, Anantnag and Bijbehara towns of the valley," a senior police officer said here.<br /><br />"The Jammu-Srinagar national highway is open for traffic and so is the Srinagar-Baramulla road," he added. <br /><br />Meanwhile, police said two gunmen riding a motorcycle without any number plate fired from a pistol at Khankah Ghat in Hajan town in north Kashmir's Bandipora district Thursday but no one was hurt.<br /></p>
<p>Yaseer Hameed Sheikh, shot in Maisuma locality Aug 30 while playing carom with his friends on the road, passed away in New Delhi late Wednesday night. He was a cousin of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chief Yasin Malik.<br /><br />"He had been shifted to Delhi for specialised treatment and died late yesterday (Wednesday) night," a distraught family member of the youth said here.<br />Sheikh was allegedly shot without any provocation.<br /><br />The constable who fired at Sheikh and other youths in Maisuma has been restrained to quarter guard duties and an enquiry ordered to establish the facts, police said.<br />Authorities imposed curfew in Maisuma Aug 30. With Sheikh's death, the number of people who have lost their lives since June 11 in the valley has gone up to 90.<br />Another youth died Wednesday in firing by security forces when a mob torched the main office of the state-owned State Road Transport Corp in north Kashmir's Sopore town, 52 km from Srinagar.<br /><br />"Curfew continues in Srinagar, Sopore, Kupwara, Kralpora, Trehgam, Bandipora, Tangmarg, Ganderbal, Kangan, Budgam, Awantipora, Lethpora, Pampore, Pulwama, Shopian, Kulgam, Qoimoh, Anantnag and Bijbehara towns of the valley," a senior police officer said here.<br /><br />"The Jammu-Srinagar national highway is open for traffic and so is the Srinagar-Baramulla road," he added. <br /><br />Meanwhile, police said two gunmen riding a motorcycle without any number plate fired from a pistol at Khankah Ghat in Hajan town in north Kashmir's Bandipora district Thursday but no one was hurt.<br /></p>