Translations:Killing of Zahid Rasool Bhat/9/en
Zahid Rasool Bhat (also reported as Zahid Ahmad Bhat) was a young man from Kashmir who died on 18 October 2015 from burns sustained when a mob attacked a Kashmir-bound truck with stones and a petrol bomb near Udhampur, Jammu and Kashmir, on the night of 9 October 2015.[1][2] The attack followed rumours of cow slaughter in the district.[3] His death led to a shutdown and protests in the Kashmir Valley, and police arrested nine people.[2]