Trigger warning: This article contains disturbing images. His three-year-old grandson was also traveling with him. The identity of the person who clicked the photograph of the child sitting on his dead grandfathers bloodied chest is not yet known. They said the attack killed one soldier and wounded three others. Khans wife, who suffers from arthritis, was scheduled to have surgery on Thursday. We didnt muster the courage to go out and check what had happened. Twitter. This article originally appeared on VICE IndiaEarly this week, a photo of a three-year-old boy sitting atop his dead grandfather closed in 2020. The 65-year-old man, Bashir Ahmed Khan, was killed after a shootout between militants and Indian paramilitaries in the northern town of Sopore. At least 143 rebels, 54 government troops and 32 civilians have been killed in more than 100 military operations across Kashmir since January, the Jammu-Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society, a prominent local rights group, said in a recent report. When anyone takes his grandfathers name, he says, Papa ko thak thak kiya, said Nida Khan, the childs aunt. Srinagar: The first night after his death was a restless one for the family of Bashir Ahmed Khan, a 65-year-old Srinagar resident killed in the aftermath of a militant attack on CRPF personnel in Kashmirs Sopore region Wednesday. We dont want to question the child about his grandfather because this could hurt him even more. Suspected militants attacked paramilitary soldiers in Kashmir, killing a 65-year-old man in Sopore, according to the Jammu and Kashmir Police. Despite the coronavirus outbreak, violence has escalated in Kashmir in recent months as India has stepped up its counterinsurgency operations. [https://aje.io/hl779] In a tweet, Abdullah wrote, Everything becomes a propaganda tool in the bloody violence in Kashmir. A photo of a toddler sitting on the chest of of his dead grandfather has outraged residents of Indian-controlled Kashmir after the victims family accused government forces of shooting the 65-year-old man during a clash with rebels. The family refutes the claim. The reports claim, the three-year-old boy witnessed the killing of his grandfather when he suffered bullet injuries during the crossfire between the Indian armed forces and militants in Kashmir on Wednesday. The family of a 65-year-old Kashmiri man say he was shot dead by Indian security forces while driving with his 3-year-old grandson, while Indian police say he was killed in crossfire with rebels. While he played with his cousins on the stairs of their three storey house in Srinagar, the childs familys said that he had told them about Indian paramilitary soldiers telling his grandfather to step out of the car and shooting him in the middle of a gunbattle with suspected militants in the northern town of Sopore. There is no reason for him to lie or exaggerate, said Suhail Ahmad Khan, the boys 25-year-old uncle, and the son of the man who was killed. Kashmir: Child Witness to His Grandfathers Killing Used for Political Point Scoring 07 Jul 2020 We all came across a heartbreaking picture on social media of an elderly man, lying dead at the roadside, his clean white shirt stained with blood at different points, and an innocent child who seemed to have frozen out of fear, sitting on top of the lifeless body. 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