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 U.N. chief concerned over Kashmir
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Srinagar:
Curfew was today clamped in all major towns of Kashmir Valley,
including Srinagar, as protestors torched a railway station and
clashed with security forces, who opened fire leaving one person
dead and over 25 others injured, including several policemen.
Angry protestors clashed with police at various places in the Valley
and burnt the Special operations Camp in Pattan in North Kashmir
besides attempting to ransack the Jammu and Kashmir Armed Police's
Batallion headquarter at Naidkhai in Sumbhal.
Police officials said a big group of stone pelters attacked the
Batallion headquarters leaving SP Bandipore Sheikh Junaid injured
besides several other policemen. While containing the unruly mob,
one protestor died, a police spokesman said, adding one of the
injured was stated to be in a critical condition.
Though police had earlier said that a teenager was killed in the
firing by security forces in Pattan, they later clarified that she
was in a serious condition and was being operated upon in SKIMS
hospital at Soura. Police opened fire at various places to quell
protestors which left at least 16 people injured.
In the wake of the protests that started yesterday leaving four
persons dead, authorities imposed indefinite curfew in major towns
of the Kashmir Valley, including Srinagar, Pulwama, Anantnag, Kulgam,
Baramulla, Bandipora, Sopore, Ganderbal and Budgam. Police and para-military
forces also staged a march in the entire Srinagar city and requested
people to remain indoors and not to defy the curfew.
Five persons were injured when security forces fired at protestors,
who went on a rampage and attacked a CRPF patrol which was enforcing
curfew in Kreeri in Pattan, police said. The security forces made
several attempts to disperse the crowd but it turned more violent
and tried to snatch the rifles of the CRPF jawans, they said, adding
security forces then opened fire to quell the mob.
In Amargarh in Sopore, five persons were injured when protestors set
afire a railway station. The protestors included the kin of those
who were killed in clashes with security forces in the area
yesterday.
Violence also broke out in Pampore, 16 kms from here, where locals
attacked policemen. There was no report of any casualty in the
incident A police spokesman said this morning that two of the 70
people, who were injured during protests yesterday succumbed to
injuries at a hospital.
The deceased have been identified as Mohammed Rafiq and 30-year-old
Mohammed Siddiqui of Baramulla district. Police and paramilitary
forces have been deployed in all sensitive areas and the residents
have been asked not to step out.
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