Girl dies in road accident caused by stone pelting

srinagar — A girl died in a road accident caused by a stone pelting mob in Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday.

Police said: “Stone pelting led to the death of a young girl on Tuesday morning when she along with her sister was hit by a vehicle near Parimpora in Srinagar city.”

“The sports utility vehicle was moving backwards after it faced heavy stone pelting by a mob, and hit the two sisters,” the police said. The girls were identified as Fozia and Nadia, daughters of Mohammad Sidiq Lone, a resident of Gulbagh.

A cream-coloured Mahindra Scorpio SUV hit the girls near Rogan Gali in Parimpora.

“Both were critically injured and were shifted to a hospital where the elder sister Fozia succumbed to her injuries. —