Youth Found Mysteriously Dead In Orchard
SRINAGAR: A youth was found dead mysteriously in an orchard in his native area in Sheepora Delina of North Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Wednesday morning.
An official told, that some locals spotted the body in the orchard in Delina and accordingly informed the police.
He said that a team of police from the concerned police station reached the spot and took the body into their possession.
Official identified the deceased as Mohammad Abbas Mir son of Ghulam Mohammad Mir, a resident of Sheepora Delina.
“The body has been shifted to a nearby hospital for postmortem and investigation in this regard has been taken up,” he added.
Shopian, Indian-administered Kashmir – Ghulam Mohammad Mir, 62, looks grudgingly at the canal that usually brings water year-round to his and many other fruit orchards in Indian-administered Kashmir’s Shopian district, home to some of the finest apples grown in the lap of the Himalayas.
Mir’s anger has a reason. The canal is dry these days, hampering the start of the apple season when farmers prepare the trees with minerals and fertilisers.
“It is time to give trees their first shower (of minerals and pesticides) but there’s no water,” laments Mir, pointing to the parched canal. “It will prove costly, because missing even one spray (out of approximately a dozen recommended) can ruin the whole crop.”
Fresh snowfall in Srinagar, elsewhere in Kashmir
Fresh snowfall in Srinagar, elsewhere in Kashmir
Pic: Sajjad/DE
SRINAGAR: Fresh snowfall was experienced on early Saturday morning in the Kashmir valley, including summer capital, Srinagar and its adjoining areas, where majority interior roads, lanes and by-lanes remained under snow disrupting pedestrian and vehicular movement.
A Met department spokesman said Saturday that there could be light rain or snow in Jammu and Kashmir region during the next 24 hours. However, during the subsequent two days weather will remain dry, he said.
At some places in the civil lines, including historic Lal Chowk, the nerve centre of the summer capital, Srinagar, roads have become slippery due to frozen snow disrupting traffic movement. However, authorities were seen using salt to defreeze the frozen snow to make roads safe for driving.
Leopard Killed After Killing Nine Sheep
Leopard Killed In Shopian
Locals told the news agency KNO that a leopard killed nine sheep belonging to Ghulam Mohammad Mir of Oudur village in Trenz belt of Shopian district.
The locals subsequently attacked amd killed the leopard at cowshed, they said.
Wildlife Warden Division Shopian Suhail Intesar while confirming the incident said that a leopard has been killed in retialation by locals after it killed nine sheep.
He added that a team has been deputed to the area to investigate the matter.
Shopian: Two leopards appeared in Oudur village of south Kashmir’s Shopian district Wednesday evening in search of their purported family member killed by the locals last night leaving the whole village terrified, they said.
The locals of Oudur village had killed a leopard last night inside a cow shed where it had taken refuge after mauling nine sheep to death.
The sheep belonged to one Ghulam Mohammad Mir.
It appears now that the sheep were not killed by just that one killed beast. It is believed to be an ambush by a cat family altogether as two more leopards were spotted at the same cowshed where they might have mauled the sheep last night, a local told Kashmir Reader.