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Srinagar:
A fresh wave of protests in Kashmir Valley on Monday claimed six
lives and left 250 injured as police opened fire to disperse
rampaging mobs that indulged in stone-pelting, attacked government
buildings and looted weapons from police.
Defying curfew, stone-pelting protesters took to streets in several
places and attacked police stations and CRPF camps in the Valley
where 21 people have been killed and over 500 injured, including 200
security force personnel, in violence since last Friday.
One protester was killed in police firing after agitators attacked a
police post and attempted to set it afire in Kulgam district. In
adjacent Sangam in Anantnag district, one person was killed when
CRFP personnel retaliated to heavy stone throwing at their camp,
police said, adding another person died in a stampede following the
firing.
At Kakpora, in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, police opened fire
on a group of stone-pelting protesters who were indulging in
ransacking, killing one of them.
One person was killed in Kralpora in north Kashmir’s Kupwara
district when police fired on a mob which looted arms from a police
post. The agitators managed to flee with four rifles.
A boy, who was injured in violence in Batmaloo district this
afternoon, succumbed in the evening, police said.
Protesters this afternoon set afire all the four buildings in a
police station at Rajpura in Pulwama district injuring 20 people.
“Rampaging mobs violated curfew restrictions at various places in
Kakapora, Pulwama, Budgam, Anantnag, Kulgam and Kupwara destroying
police and public properties,” Police department said in a
statement.
Earlier in the day, protesters set afire two government offices and
a railway structure in central Budgam district.
Three protesters were injured there as police tried to contain the
violence.
Three people were injured in firing in Bemina on the outskirts of
Srinagar.
A person identified as Tariq Ahmed, who was hit by a teargas shell
three days back in Bijbehara in south Kashmir, succumbed to his
injuries in a hospital here.
Meanwhile, the Centre today rallied behind Jammu and Kashmir Chief
Minister Omar Abdullah in handling the situation in the Kashmir
Valley and indicated it is committed to carrying out political
initiatives for which peace is a prerequisite.
Arriving in New Delhi this morning, Mr. Omar called on Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh who chaired a high-level meeting to discuss
the current unrest in the Valley and find an administrative and
political way out.
He briefed the meeting in which all the members of the Cabinet
Committee of Security (CCS) including Finance Minister Pranab
Mukherjee, Home Minister P Chidambaram, Defence Minister A. K.
Antony and External Affairs Minister S. M. Krishna were present on
the latest turn of events in Kashmir which witnessed a spurt in
violence.
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