Windstorm: Woman killed in Anantnag

ANANTNAG — A 34-year-old woman was killed after she came under a tin sheet blown away from a rooftop during gusty winds in Batangoo area of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Monday.

Official sources told GNS that the woman, Meenu Jan wife of Khursheed Ahmad, came under the sheet during a heavy windstorm near Habba Khatoon petrol pump Batangoo and suffered serious injuries.

She was shifted to GMC Anantnag where she succumbed to the wounds later. A police officer told GNS that a case has been registered.

In a separate incident, a 25-year-old woman identified as Shakeela Bano wife of Firdous Ahmad Mir of Lar Ganderbal sustained injuries after strong winds damaged the rooftop of the guardroom of Ziyazat Shah Sadiq Qalandar.