Kashmir : Two students injured as miscreants pelt stones at school bus
Srinagar, May 2 (IBNS) : Two minor students were injured after miscreants pelted stones at their school bus in Zavoora area of south Kashmir’s Shopian district on Wednesday, media reports said.
"Miscreants pelted the school bus of Rainbow High School with stones near Zavoora village," reports quoted SSP Shopian Shailendra Kumar Mishra as having said.
The injured students were shifted to a nearby hospital for treatment from where one of them was referred to Srinagar. .
“We have taken cognisance of the incident and have registered a case and further investigation has been taken up,” the SSP said.
Expressing shock and anger over the incident, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti said that perpetrators will be brought to justice.
"Shocked & angered to hear of the attack on a school bus in Shopian. The perpetrators of this senseless & cowardly act will be brought to justice," she tweeted.
Former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah also condemned the attack on the school bus.
“How does pelting stones on school children or tourist buses help advance the agenda of these stone pelters? These attacks deserve our unequivocal condemnation ,” Omar wrote on his Twitter handle.
There is no official word on the cause behind the attack on the school bus. Police said that they have filed an FIR and assured that whoever is involved in the attack will be punished.
Seven tourists were injured when stone-pelters targeted passing vehicles in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Monday evening.
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