Rescuers found more bodies as they dug through trampled homes in Leh, engulfed by mudslides after Thursday night’s cloudburst, raising the toll to 150.

The skull of a secondary school student Tufail Ahmed Mattoo is split open by a randomly fired police teargas canister in downtown Srinagar.

Doctors at a Leh hospital are weary about the survival of many of the injured.

The Leh cloudburst toll rose to 132 as more bodies were found lying beneath the debris of flattened homes and other buildings on Saturday.
The authorities fear the figure could cross 200 as the rescuers have not been able to trace any of those still missing after the natural catastrophe struck the hilly town, situated at an altitude of 11,562 feet (3,524 m), during the intervening night of Thursday and Friday.

One hundred and thirteen people have been killed and over 400 injured in flash floods triggered by sudden overnight heavy rain, officials said on Friday. The toll in the biggest natural catastrophe in Leh’s living history is likely to go up as more than 50 people, including many children, are missing.

Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani has rejected the Centre’s talks offer saying his name was being dragged into “non-existent” buzz only with the design to create misapprehensions about his person and role.

Two more persons were killed and scores injured when security forces while confronting irate crowds opened fire in Srinagar and southern district of Pulwama on Thursday. With these killings, the one week toll has risen to 31 and to 49 since June 11.

At least one person was killed when the CRPF opened fire at Bemina in Srinagar on Wednesday evening, raising the toll in the past six days to 29.
Witnesses alleged that the CRPF jawans shot 30-year-old Muhammad Yakub from point blank range. “There were no protests or violence going on in the area. The C

At least four more protesters were killed and over a dozen others injured in firing by the security forces across the Kashmir Valley on Tuesday, while a youth injured earlier in shooting at Krew township died in a Srinagar hospital. With this, the death toll has risen to 27 in the past five days.

The Omar Abdullah government has, during the past two days, reached out to several Kashmiri separatist leaders with the plea that it was ready to seek resolution of the issues through talks with them if they help in restoring peace in the Valley.