Yasin Malik’s cousin 90th victim in Kashmir

SRINAGAR - Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Yasin Malik’s cousin, injured in police firing here, has become the 90th victim of the ongoing Kashmir violence.

Yaseer Hameed Sheikh, shot in Maisuma locality Aug 30 while playing carom on the road with friends, succumbed to his injuries in a New Delhi hospital Wednesday night.

“He had been shifted to Delhi for specialised treatment,” a distraught family member of the youth said here. Sheikh was allegedly shot without any provocation.

The constable who fired at him and other youths in Maisuma has been restrained to quarter guard duties and an enquiry ordered to establish the facts, police said.

The Kashmir Valley has been on the boil since June 11 with security forces gunning down 90 protesters.