{"id":286519,"date":"2018-05-09T15:11:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T09:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=286519"},"modified":"2018-05-09T15:11:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T09:41:51","slug":"mehbooba-omar-strongly-condemn-chennai-tourists-death-in-stone-pelting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/mehbooba-omar-strongly-condemn-chennai-tourists-death-in-stone-pelting\/","title":{"rendered":"Mehbooba, Omar strongly condemn Chennai tourist\u2019s death in stone pelting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1525794171-7473.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-286524 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1525794171-7473-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"1525794171-7473\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-id=\"286524\" \/><\/a>A 22 year-old\u00a0tourist\u00a0from Chennai who became a victim of stone pelting in\u00a0 Kashmir city on\u00a0April 30, succumbed to his injuries in a Srinagar hospital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">R Thirumani, was reportedly travelling\u00a0along with his family in between Srinagar and Kashmir&#8217;s premier resort of Gulmarg.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">His two other family members also got injured during the incident. The stone-pelters were reportedly protesting against the killing of five Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists in an encounter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police, Vaid said, \u201cThere were two to three vehicles that came under a stone pelting bout today in Narbal area on the way to Gulmarg. So two to three people got injured.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">The family had arrived in the city on April 29 was on its way to visit Gulmarg when it was attacked. Total of 47 people were traveling in four tempos at the time of the incident and among them, seven people suffered injuries on the head and were taken to different sub-district hospitals in Seer, Anantnag District, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe\u2019ve killed a tourist by throwing stones at the vehicle he was traveling in. Let\u2019s try and wrap our heads around the fact that we stoned a tourist, a guest, to death while we glorify these stone pelters &amp; their methods,\u201d wrote Omar Abdullah, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Following the incident Mehbooba Mufti, Jammu &amp; Kashmir CM rushed to the hospital and met the family.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While condemning the death, Mufti has released a statement\u00a0and said the unfortunate incident of the killing of 23-year-old R Thirumani is heartbreaking.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI have no words strong enough to condemn this tragic incident or even condole with the family\u201d, said the statement.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt\u2019s truly heartbreaking when a family saves for years to realise their dream of visiting Kashmir &amp; while they are here they face their worst nightmare. I have no words strong enough to condemn this tragic incident or even begin to condole the family,\u201d Mufti wrote on Twitter.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u00a0\u201cThis young man from Chennai died in my constituency &amp; while I don\u2019t support these goons, their methods or their ideology I\u2019m deeply, deeply sorry that this happened at all &amp; that too in an area I\u2019ve been proud to represent since 2014,\u201d Opposition leader Omar Abdullah tweeted.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 22 year-old\u00a0tourist\u00a0from Chennai who became a victim of stone pelting in\u00a0 Kashmir city on\u00a0April 30, succumbed to his injuries in a Srinagar hospital. R Thirumani, was reportedly travelling\u00a0along with his family in between Srinagar and Kashmir&#8217;s premier resort of Gulmarg. His two other family members also got injured during the incident. 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