Abida, also known as Sumaiya, lives in a dirty lane in Sumbal’s Naidkhai neighbourhood, Bandipora district. Every eye is moist, and every soul is in profound shock. Everyone here is moved to tears by the three children.
A six-year-old daughter, a seven-year-old brother, and a five-year-old boy. On November 3, Abida went to Srinagar’s monthly Sunday market to buy winter clothes for her children, unaware that she would come home dead. She was critically injured in the grenade explosion and died at SMHS Hospital this afternoon.
These siblings are unaware that their mother has died. “Why are so many people coming to our house,” the eldest one asks his uncle, who tries to calm them.
As the villagers gather in great numbers outside Abida’s home, the eldest child says, “My mother has gone to the Sunday market to buy clothes for me and my younger brother and sister. “
She promised me a blue jacket and long boots for winter.” The village women continuously hug the three siblings, eliciting cries and sobs, but these children had no idea that their mother had died.
As villagers flooded Abida’s house, her children were whisked away from their single-story home to avoid the trauma of their mother’s death.
“These kids are too small to understand the meaning of death,” a sobbing lady told news agency KINS, hitting her chest.
Three Lashkar-e-Toiba members have already been arrested for their involvement in the attack. (KINS)
