Message from #KashmirNow: image via Nomy Sahir, 20 August 2016
Over 120 injured in #Kashmir: image via Syed Ali Geelani @Sageelani, 19 August 2016
Curfew in #Kashmir for 43rd day: Govt staff asked to resume duties as protesters hit streets: image via Firstpost Verified account @firstpost, 19 August 2016
Massive clashes erupted in Bandipora #Kashmir 14 injured after troops attacked pro-freedom rally: image via Nomy Sahir, 20 August 2016
Massive clashes erupted in Bandipora #Kashmir 14 injured after troops attacked pro-freedom rally: image via Nomy Sahir, 20 August 2016
Massive clashes erupted in Bandipora #Kashmir 14 injured after troops attacked pro-freedom rally: image via Nomy Sahir, 20 August 2016
Massive clashes erupted in Bandipora #Kashmir 14 injured after troops attacked pro-freedom rally: image via Nomy Sahir, 20 August 2016
#Kashmir opposition parties to meet President today: image via Hindustan Times Verified account @htTweets, 19 August 2016
Victimsof clashes overwhelm hospital in Indian Kashmir: Cathal McNaughton and Fayaz Bukhari | SRINAGAR, India, Reuters, 18 August 2016
More than 40 days of clashes between protesters and security forces have overwhelmed the main hospital in Indian-administered Kashmir, where some patients with severe injuries said they had been beaten in their homes by troops.
House-to-house searches continued on Friday, authorities said, for suspected ringleaders of street protests set off by the killing on July 8 of a popular field commander of a Pakistan-based separatist group.
At least 65 people have been killed and 6,000 injured in the ensuing clashes, many of them wounded by shotgun rounds fired by security forces enforcing a curfew across the Muslim-majority region.
Pictures taken by a Reuters photographer at Srinagar's main SMHS Hospital on Thursday showed men with wounds across their backs and buttocks they said had been caused by beatings.
Another showed a crying boy, his head swathed in bandages, being comforted by his family, who said he had been wounded by shotgun pellets.
The Indian army has apologised for the death in custody of Shabir Ahmad Mangoo, a 30-year-old college lecturer. The commander of Northern Army denounced the beatings and ordered an inquiry.
"These actions are absolutely not sanctioned. These actions are absolutely not tolerated," Lieutenant General DS Hooda told a news conference in Srinagar on Friday.
India's security laws grant wide discretion to the armed forces in "disturbed" areas such as Kashmir. Human rights activists say those responsible for excessive violence are rarely brought to justice.
Hospital doctors were exhausted, with one saying they had performed more eye operations in the past month than they had over the last three years.
"We are in physical and mental stress," said Nisarul Hassan, senior consultant at SMHS Hospital who was forced to use an ambulance to get home.
Dozens of volunteers received the injured at the hospital as ambulances brought them in from rural areas.
Paramedics and ambulance drivers said government forces attacked them on the way. The curfew restricts movement, severely disrupting daily life.
"India and Pakistan are fighting over my homeland but in the end it is only our blood that they manage to secure," said Faizal Wani, 24, whose father was being treated for pellet wounds suffered in the clashes.
Another doctor said patients had been brought in with abdominal injuries from rifle bullets. "Our operating theatres are working non-stop," the doctor told Reuters.
Troops have resorted to firing rifles and shotguns to quell stone-throwing protests sparked by the death of Burhan Wani, a field commander of the Hizbul Mujahideen separatist group.
Central Reserve Police Force, which deploys a large contingent of paramilitaries in Kashmir, told a regional court that more than 100 people had been partly or completely blinded by shotgun pellets.
Kashmir is at the centre of a decades-old rivalry between India and Pakistan, which rules a northwestern section of the divided region, and backed an insurgency in the late 1980s and 1990s that Indian security forces largely crushed.
A U.N. human rights official has expressed "deep regret" at the failure of both India and Pakistan to grant access to the separate parts of Kashmir that each runs to investigate allegations of serious human rights violations.
This picture should have been on the front pages #Kashmir: image via Supriya Sharma @sharmasupriya, 18 August 2016
Post 12: of elections, boycott, and democratic malpractice: image via Ather Zia @aziakashmir, 12 August 2016
poetry from #Kashmir #KashmirBlindSpot: image via Ather Zia @aziakashmir, 13 August 2016
Post 14: Kashmir maybe silenced; it is not silent: image via Ather Zia @aziakashmir, 14 August 2016
INDIA - An paramilitary trooper stands alert in a net-covered bunker during a curfew in Srinagar. By @TauseefMUSTAFA: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 19 August 2016
flooding the burn area
A barbecue and other items burn as the Bluecut wildfire rages near Cajon Pass: photo by Ringo Chiu / AFP, 16 August 2016
A chicken runs by a chicken coop that burns with some animals still inside at the Bluecut Fire in the San Bernardino National Forest: photo by Gene Blevins / Reuters, 16 August 2016
A home burns near the town of Lower Lake, California: photo by Josh Edelson / AP, 14 August 2016
Embers from a wildfire smolder on a hill along Lytle Creek Road near Keenbrook, California. Firefighters had at least established a foothold of control of the blaze the day after it broke out for unknown reasons in the Cajon Pass near Interstate 15, the vital artery between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Five years of drought have turned the state's wildlands into a tinder box, with eight fires currently burning from Shasta County in the far north to Camp Pendleton just north of San Diego.: photo by Noah Berger / AP, 17 August 2016 Flames whipped by strong winds burn though a hillside before destroying camper vans in the Bluecut Fire in San Bernardino County, California: photo by Patrick Fallon / Reuters, 17 August 2016
Corrected map: Satellite imagery shows the #BlueCutFire's huge burn area: image via Los Angeles Times @latimes, 19 August 2016
A helicopter drops fire retardant on the Blue Cut fire, northeast of Los Angeles, California: photo by Paul Buck/EPA, 19 August 2016
A helicopter drops fire retardant on the Blue Cut fire, northeast of Los Angeles, California: photo by Paul Buck/EPA, 19 August 2016
A firefighting helicopter makes a drop as firefighters try to gain control of the fire above homes along Cajon Boulevard at the Bluecut Fire, near Wrightwood, California: photo by David McNew, 18 August 2016
The sun sets through smoky skies from the so-called Bluecut Fire in the San Bernardino National Forest: photo Gene Blevins / Reuters, 16 August 2016
The sun sets over the Giza Pyramids, near Cairo, Egypt: photo by Amr Nabil / AP, 19 August 2016
Scorched pine trees, after a forest fire, near Agueda, Portugal: photo by Rafael Marchante / Reuters, 12 August 2016
Wildebeests cross the Mara river during their migration to the greener pastures, between the Maasai Mara game reserve and the open plains of the Serengeti, southwest of Kenya's capital Nairobi: photo by Thomas Mukoya / Reuters, 15 August 2016
Cattle are driven through a flooded road as they are herded to trucks to be brought to dry land in Sorrento, Louisiana. Starting last week Louisiana was overwhelmed with floodwater causing at least eight deaths and thousands of homes damaged by the flood waters.: photo by Joe Raedle, 16 August 2016
A Virgin Mary statue is seen in front of a flooded home in St. Amant, Louisiana: photo by Joe Raedle, 18 August 2016
A submerged vehicle is seen in Ascension Parish, Louisiana: photo by Jonathan Bachman / Reuters, 15 August 2016
The Gold-N-Guns pawn shop is seen in floodwaters in Gonzales, Louisiana: photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP, on August 16, 2016
A casket floats in front of a partially submerged church in Ascension Parish, Louisiana: photo by Jonathan Bachman / Reuters, 15 August 2016
A casket is seen floating in flood waters in Ascension Parish, Louisiana. Torrential rains over the weekend dumped nearly two feet of water on the area.: photo by Jonathan Bachman / Reuters, 15 August 2016
the only one who can save us from this flood #harambe #prayforlouisiana: image via Anna @annaxlizabeth, 13 August 2016
Forever in our heart #Harambe #rip: image via Money-Lauren @mia_laureny, 16 August 2016 Silver Creek High School
A partially melted thermometer is seen on a house that survived after a fire tore through Lower Lake: photo by Josh Edelson / AP, 16 August 2016
Forever in our heart #Harambe #rip: image via Money-Lauren @mia_laureny, 16 August 2016 Silver Creek High School
#FRANCE The zoological park of Saint-Martin-La-Plaine is a shelter for beasts seized by the justice @AFPphoto: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPhoto, 16 August 2016
Harambe is tied with the Green Party in US election, despite being dead (and a gorilla): photo by John Sommers II via Metro UK, 17 August 2016 Pierre Thivillon (right), director of the zoological park of Saint-Martin-La-Plaine and his wife Eliane look at Digit, an 18-year-old female gorilla, in Saint-Martin-La-Plaine between Lyon and Saint-Etienne, France: photo by Philippe Desmazes / AFP, 18 August 2016
Resident Taina holds her brother Ysaque in the hallway outside their apartment in an occupied building in the Mangueira favela community, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Hundreds of residents who live in the surrounding structures must collect water from hoses as there is no running water in the buildings. Much of the Mangueira favela community sits about a kilometer away from Maracana stadium, the site of the opening and closing ceremonies for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. The stadium has received hundreds of millions of dollars in renovations ahead of the World Cup and Olympics. The Morar Carioca plan to urbanize Rio's favelas, or unplanned settlements, by 2020, was one key social legacy project heralded ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. The plan has mostly failed to materialize. Around 1.4 million residents, or approximately 22 percent of Rio's population, reside in favelas which often lack proper sanitation, health care, education and security due to gang and police violence.: photo by Mario Tama, 13 August 2016
Não faça o @RyanLochte. Falsa comunicação de crime é #crime. #LochteGate: image via Governo do RJ @GovEJ, 19 August 2016
Four white guys said some brown people robbed them at gunpoint? And lied? That's unbelievable. #Lochtegate: tweet via CHRIS ROCK @chrisrockyoz, 18 August 2016
Thought something was suspicious when they didn't take his phone, gold chainz and diamond crusted rolex. #ryanlochte: image via Phil @Phillip_Thomas, 18 August 2016
"I just wanted to do something to shock people…. Something loud.” #RyanLochte: image via CharlotteFive @Charlotte_Five, 5 August 2016
Syrian refugee girl Housaida rests inside the Spanish rescue vessel Astral after being rescued by the Spanish NGO Proactiva off the Libyan coast in the Mediterranean Sea: photo by Giorgos Moutafis / Reuters, 18 August 2016
PHILIPPINES - A chalk outline remains on a street in Manila after the body of a killed man was moved. By @herime23: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 19 August 2016
Police officers inspecting the body of a young man who lay dead in the middle of a residential street on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday.: photo by Felipe Dana/Associated Press, 17 August 2016
Police officers inspecting the body of a young man who lay dead in the middle of a residential street on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday.: photo by Felipe Dana/Associated Press, 17 August 2016
