Handwara, Nov 14: Protestors blocked Baramulla-Handwara road and halted vehicular movement on Friday after an Army vehicle crushed a fifth class student to death near Ganapora Langate.
Eyewitnesses told that a speedy Army vehicle hit an 11 year old girl student while she was walking on the one side of the road. The girl whom police identified as Farhat Manzoor daughter of Manzoor Ahmed Rather of Wangam Langate died on spot. Scores of people soon after the incident took to roads and kept the body of the deceased girl in the middle of the road resulting in massive traffic jam.
Reports said that people dispersed only after the assurances from police that guilty will be booked. Eyewitnesses told  that people staged a massive protest and raised slogans against the Indian Army.
