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Teargas shell tears apart Handwara woman’s face
On a bed in Ward 8 at Srinagar’s SMHS Hospital is a woman with her face swollen, one eye oozing blood-tinged tears, her nasal bridge depressed and stitches running all over her forehead, brow and nose.
“Her name is Zoona. She is my wife,” a distraught-looking man, Gojri, trying to make her comfortable says. “She was hit by a tear gas shell,” he adds while pulling a dupatta over her face.
On the night of August 30, Zoona, a 35 year old woman from Magam Handwara, set out from her native place to Srinagar in a Sumo taxi. She had not seen her husband, who works in Srinagar, since July 8, the day he left home after Eid ul Fitr holidays.
“He had wanted to travel to meet his family but could not, for there is danger of life on roads these days,” Abdul Sattar, brother-in-law of Zoona, says. “She should not have left to see him,” he says.
“I thought I can go and see him at least,” Zoona said.
Zoona, her husband says, was sitting on the window side in the middle seat of the taxi. “At Hamri Pattan, a teargas shell fired by forces smashed her face,” he says.
Government has been imposing strict night curfew in Kashmir to thwart the post-6 p.m relaxation given by resistance leadership in the strike.
The driver, as per Gojri, kept driving and did not stop. “Around 12 midnight, I got a call from the driver who informed me that my wife had been injured by a teargas shell and asked me to remain on road at Qamarwari,” he says.
“No one came till 1:00 a.m,” he says. “Then I got a call from my wife’s number.” Gojri says the caller was a volunteer from hospital who asked him to reach SMHS Hospital Trauma Center.
“They operated on her at 03:00 a.m,” he says.
“I remember we were travelling in dark and something hit my face with a loud thunder,” Zoona whispers, struggles to make the words audible. She can hardly open her mouth to speak. “After that sudden loud smash, I remember nothing.”
She regained her senses at SMHS Hospital the next day.
Doctors said Zoona has received a blunt trauma on the left side of her face that has resulted in multiple fractures to her face and ‘total damage’ to her eye. “Imagine the force with which her eye has been hit when her face bones have broken. What could have become of her eye,” the doctors said.
Zoona has two sons who had been left behind with their grandmother at Handwara. Her husband, a traditional chef (waza) by profession had left his family in native village just a day after Eid. “I had expected work and some good earnings in the ‘season,” he says.
“I should not have left my family behind,” Gojri breaks down.
“Everything is from Allah,” a volunteer in the ward tries to console the husband.
http://m.greaterkashmir.com/news/kashmir/story/227449.html
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On a bed in Ward 8 at Srinagar’s SMHS Hospital is a woman with her face swollen, one eye oozing blood-tinged tears, her nasal bridge depressed and stitches running all over her forehead, brow and nose.
“Her name is Zoona. She is my wife,” a distraught-looking man, Gojri, trying to make her comfortable says. “She was hit by a tear gas shell,” he adds while pulling a dupatta over her face.
On the night of August 30, Zoona, a 35 year old woman from Magam Handwara, set out from her native place to Srinagar in a Sumo taxi. She had not seen her husband, who works in Srinagar, since July 8, the day he left home after Eid ul Fitr holidays.
“He had wanted to travel to meet his family but could not, for there is danger of life on roads these days,” Abdul Sattar, brother-in-law of Zoona, says. “She should not have left to see him,” he says.
“I thought I can go and see him at least,” Zoona said.
Zoona, her husband says, was sitting on the window side in the middle seat of the taxi. “At Hamri Pattan, a teargas shell fired by forces smashed her face,” he says.
Government has been imposing strict night curfew in Kashmir to thwart the post-6 p.m relaxation given by resistance leadership in the strike.
The driver, as per Gojri, kept driving and did not stop. “Around 12 midnight, I got a call from the driver who informed me that my wife had been injured by a teargas shell and asked me to remain on road at Qamarwari,” he says.
“No one came till 1:00 a.m,” he says. “Then I got a call from my wife’s number.” Gojri says the caller was a volunteer from hospital who asked him to reach SMHS Hospital Trauma Center.
“They operated on her at 03:00 a.m,” he says.
“I remember we were travelling in dark and something hit my face with a loud thunder,” Zoona whispers, struggles to make the words audible. She can hardly open her mouth to speak. “After that sudden loud smash, I remember nothing.”
She regained her senses at SMHS Hospital the next day.
Doctors said Zoona has received a blunt trauma on the left side of her face that has resulted in multiple fractures to her face and ‘total damage’ to her eye. “Imagine the force with which her eye has been hit when her face bones have broken. What could have become of her eye,” the doctors said.
Zoona has two sons who had been left behind with their grandmother at Handwara. Her husband, a traditional chef (waza) by profession had left his family in native village just a day after Eid. “I had expected work and some good earnings in the ‘season,” he says.
“I should not have left my family behind,” Gojri breaks down.
“Everything is from Allah,” a volunteer in the ward tries to console the husband.
http://m.greaterkashmir.com/news/kashmir/story/227449.html
@Areesh @Arsalan @waz @Mr.Meap @The Sandman @PaklovesTurkiye @django @Moonlight
