{"id":50952,"date":"2022-03-27T13:18:14","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T07:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/amid-tears-sobs-spo-his-brother-laid-to-rest-in-budgam\/"},"modified":"2022-03-27T13:18:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T07:48:14","slug":"amid-tears-sobs-spo-his-brother-laid-to-rest-in-budgam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=50952","title":{"rendered":"Amid tears, sobs; SPO, his brother laid to rest in Budgam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Budgam, Mar 27:<\/em><\/strong> Amid tears and sobs, the slain Special Police Officer (SPO) and his brother were laid to rest in Chadabugh village of Central Kashmir&#8217;s Budgam district on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emotional scenes were witnessed when the body of SPO Ishfaq Ahmed, 24, and his brother Umer Jan, 23, reached their native village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Witnesses told the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that hundreds of people including women, children, youth and elderly flooded the house of two slain brothers amid wails and shrieks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Women were seen showering tofees and flowers on the coffins of two siblings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ishfaq, an SPO and his brother Umer suffered critical wounds when militants barged into their house on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ishfaq was declared brought dead at the hospital while his brother Umer was admitted in JVC hospital Bemina where he breathed his last at 5 am on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A pall of gloom decended on the entire Chadabugh village, where women were seen beating chests and wails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Every eye was moist here as both siblings were young and were loved by all the villagers for their joly nature,\u201d said a group of mourners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe dont know why they were killed and what was their fault.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hundreds of people participated in the funeral of Ishfaq and Umer, who were later laid to rest at their ancestral graveyard Chadabugh\u2014(KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Budgam, Mar 27: Amid tears and sobs, the slain Special Police Officer (SPO) and his brother were laid to rest in Chadabugh village of Central Kashmir&#8217;s Budgam district on Sunday. Emotional scenes were witnessed when the body of SPO Ishfaq Ahmed, 24, and his brother Umer Jan, 23, reached their native village. Witnesses told the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50952","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\/50952","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=50952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50952\/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=50952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}