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ISLAMABAD, (APP): As use of lethal pellet guns by
Indian forces continues, the number of youth with ruptured and
bruised eyes due to pellet wounds is rising with each passing
day in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK).
On Friday, at least 20 youth were hit by the deadly
pellets across the Kashmir Valley following clashes between
protesters and forces’ personnel at different places, KMS
reported on Saturday.
“We received 17 youth with pellet injuries to one of
their eyes on Friday,” a senior doctor at SMHS hospital in
Srinagar, which has been treating the eye injury cases for
the past 70 days, told mediamen.
In total, the hospital, which has a full-fledged
ophthalmology department, on Friday admitted 21 persons
with pellet injuries to eyes and other parts of body.
The five youth who were admitted at the hospital on
Thursday with pellet injuries to their eyes, were operated
upon for removal of the pellets, the small metallic balls
fired from pump shotguns with high velocity.
Since July 9, a day after the extrajudicial murder
of noted freedom fighter, Burhan Muzaffar Wani, the SMHS
hospital has admitted more than 820 persons with pellet
injuries to one or both eyes.
The injured persons require undergoing weeks-long
treatment including critical retinal surgeries to see
any chances of regaining the vision in the damaged eyes.
Doctors have been however stating that most of the injured
persons wouldn’t get back the vision to live a normal life.
Despite severe criticism over the use of the pellet
guns, the Indian Government and its puppet authorities
have allowed the continued use of the lethal weapon in
the occupied territory.