{"id":23767,"date":"2020-04-14T23:04:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T17:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=23767"},"modified":"2020-04-14T23:04:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T17:34:46","slug":"youngest-victim-of-loc-shelling-died-while-running-for-safe-place-mothers-lap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=23767","title":{"rendered":"Youngest victim of LoC shelling died while running for safe place\u2014mother\u2019s lap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kupwara<\/strong>: \u201cMother I am bleeding,\u201d were the last words of the youngest victim of cross border shelling Ziyan. He rushed to his mother\u2019s lap and breathed his last within no time.<\/p>\n

Majeed Ahmad Kataria, uncle of Ziyan, talking exclusively to news agency \u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO), said that at the time when cross border shelling started on Sunday, all the kids were playing outside.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the intense shelling started, I fell flat on and my brother along with Ziyan and my kids ran towards their home. While rushing towards home, a splinter hit Ziyan and he called his mother saying he was hit,\u201d said Kataria. \u201cHe found solace in his mother\u2019s lap and breathed his last there only.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ziyan\u2019s father was also injured while running for cover. \u201cA splinter hit the left hand my brother Bashir Ahmad Kataria,\u201d he said. He said that Ziyan was hit in his head and forehead just outside the door of his house. \u201cIn the corridor of his house, his mother was waiting for him,\u201d Kataria told KNO.<\/p>\n

He said Ziyan\u2019s mother Naziya Begum saw her son\u2019s head injured and blood oozing from the wounds. \u201cShe cried for help amid tears, but it was all over for Ziyan,\u201d said Kataria.<\/p>\n

Ziyan was not even able to shout out of the pain he suffered. \u201cThe heavy exchange of artillery was going on when he was hit. We couldn\u2019t manage to rescue and evacuate him for medical attention,\u201d Katria said. \u201cNaziya went to him and held him in her lap and kept weeping in absence of any help for long, even after grave injury to him the exchange was going for at least next 15 minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the moment resembled the dooms day when he saw Ziyan’s father felling to his injuries and mother holding his dead son craving for help shouting to the sky. \u201cThe scene was really scary and everything was so disturbing and threatening like we all may get killed like him,\u201d Kataria said.<\/p>\n

Ziyan\u2019s mother Naziya is in a deep shock, not able to utter a word. Perhaps, she is not able to come terms as it is not easy to see a minor son dying in her lap. It may be recalled that after April 5 episode when five militants and five soldiers of Special Forces Squad were killed in Keran sector of Kupwara, tension started mounted on the LoC in the district.<\/p>\n

However, Sunday horror triggered by heavy exchange of mortar shells by the armies of India and Pakistan claimed three lives including a minor. The locals said they can\u2019t forget the damage caused by Sunday shelling for years together as it was worst ever shelling they witnessed so far\u2014(KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kupwara: \u201cMother I am bleeding,\u201d were the last words of the youngest victim of cross border shelling Ziyan. He rushed to his mother\u2019s lap and breathed his last within no time. Majeed Ahmad Kataria, uncle of Ziyan, talking exclusively to news agency \u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO), said that at the time when cross border shelling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}