Srinagar: A 20-year-old youth, Shabar Ali, died after drowning in a drain during a stone-pelting protest in Magam area of Jammu and Kashmir's Budgam on Friday (April 22, 2022) afternoon. The media report quoted official sources as saying that after Friday prayers, there was a minor protest in Magam area of Budgam, during which a group of youth threw stones at the security personnel. On which the soldiers stationed there chased the young man away.
It has been claimed in the report that a youth drowned in Sukhnag drain of Budgam when the police were chasing these youths. He told The Kashmiriyat that, 'His body has been pulled out of the drain.' According to local news agency, Kashmir News Trust, the incident took place on Thursday (April 21, 2022) in the native village of Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist commander Yusuf Kantro who was killed in an encounter in Baramulla. The youth who drowned in the drain during the incident was Shabar Ali, son of Ali Mohammad Mir, a resident of Gund Hassi Bhat area of Srinagar.
In another tweet, a local journalist wrote that, "A teenager died due to drowning on Friday in Budgam district of central Kashmir. Sources said that a group of youth pelted stones at the security forces and while they were being chased, a boy drowned in Sukhnag drain.
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