April 05, 2007	Thursday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 16, 1428

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MUZAFFARABAD, April 4: A student was stabbed to death and three others were injured in a clash between supporters of a political group and undergraduates here on Wednesday.

Another student was injured after being hit by a stray bullet as relatives of the slain student protested outside the Combined Military Hospital here.

According to police, the clash occurred at Upper Adda after a some activists of the National Students Federation (NSF) confronted students of the Boys’ Degree College, who had alleged in an application filed in the city police station a day ago that the NSF activists had thrashed them for not joining their rally.

Four people also sustained knife wounds and were rushed to the nearby CMH where Tauqeer Abbas, 19, a student of a private college, breathed his last within 10 minutes.

Shopkeepers pulled down their shutters on the main road outside CMH where within a short while dozens of relatives of slain student and local residents gathered. One of the uncles of deceased was disturbed so badly that he tore apart his shirt and started aerial firing with a pistol on the main road, causing panic among the people gathered outside the hospital. However, he was overpowered by his relatives.

Later, in another incident of aerial firing, a stray bullet hit another student identified as Shahid Qayyum, who was also admitted to the hospital.

The body of slain student was taken to the Kardalla village on foot as his relatives insisted on not using the ambulance. According to the police, the situation was now under control.