<div>Two boys have become the latest victims of pellet firing by security forces in Kashmir.One of the victims, a 13-year-old, is fighting for his life at the SMHS hospital. Mir Arfat, a class 7 student, was hit in his heart, abdomen, chest, neck and eyes, while a few pellets struck him near his spinal cord, a senior doctor at the hospital said.<br /><br />“We cannot say anything about his condition right now,” the doctor said. “We will monitor him for the next 12 hours and decide on undertaking a surgery to remove the pellets out of his body,” he said. Arfat is conscious. <br /><br />“Look what they have done to my son,” said Arfat’s father Ghulam Nabi Mir, who held the young boy’s hand as he cried for help. <br /><br />Ghulam said his son and three other boys were out on a walk when authorities lifted the curfew in the area. “They had entered a park on the roadside when a police vehicle passing by fired a burst of pellets at them,” he said, adding there were no riots in the area. <br /><br />In the same incident, seven-year-old Asif Rashid has been blinded in one eye. “Pellets entered his right eye and exited through the other side,” a doctor from the hospital’s ophthalmic department said. “His eye has been completely damaged.” Asif’s mother said her son had left home to buy some biscuits. “Is he a stone-pelter?” she asked. Though Asif’s eyeball is not damaged, doctors said there has been considerable damage to the tissue. <br /></div>
<div>Two boys have become the latest victims of pellet firing by security forces in Kashmir.One of the victims, a 13-year-old, is fighting for his life at the SMHS hospital. Mir Arfat, a class 7 student, was hit in his heart, abdomen, chest, neck and eyes, while a few pellets struck him near his spinal cord, a senior doctor at the hospital said.<br /><br />“We cannot say anything about his condition right now,” the doctor said. “We will monitor him for the next 12 hours and decide on undertaking a surgery to remove the pellets out of his body,” he said. Arfat is conscious. <br /><br />“Look what they have done to my son,” said Arfat’s father Ghulam Nabi Mir, who held the young boy’s hand as he cried for help. <br /><br />Ghulam said his son and three other boys were out on a walk when authorities lifted the curfew in the area. “They had entered a park on the roadside when a police vehicle passing by fired a burst of pellets at them,” he said, adding there were no riots in the area. <br /><br />In the same incident, seven-year-old Asif Rashid has been blinded in one eye. “Pellets entered his right eye and exited through the other side,” a doctor from the hospital’s ophthalmic department said. “His eye has been completely damaged.” Asif’s mother said her son had left home to buy some biscuits. “Is he a stone-pelter?” she asked. Though Asif’s eyeball is not damaged, doctors said there has been considerable damage to the tissue. <br /></div>
