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Srinagar:
Two persons killed and three others injured in firing by security
forces in Anantnag district in south Kashmir, according to police.
Fresh clashes on Tuesday broke out between locals protesting the
killing of youths in alleged CRPF firing and security forces in
parts of Srinagar, Baramulla and Anantnag districts, leaving 13
people injured.
With violence spreading to more places, curfew was imposed this
morning in parts of Baramulla, Anantnag and seven police station
areas of Srinagar as the situation remained tense in troubled Sopore
in the wake of the protests.
In view of the violence, mobile services in north Kashmir and SMS
service in the entire valley were blocked on the instructions of the
state government.
With separatists giving fresh calls for strike, life remained
crippled across Kashmir valley, including Srinagar, for the fifth
consecutive day on Tuesday.
In Anantnag, 65 kms from here, locals assembled at a bus stand and
protested against the killings. Paramilitary forces deployed in the
town initially cane charged them but when they refused to budge,
they opened fire resulting in death of two persons and injuries to
three persons including a teenager identified as Irshiad Ahmad Bhat.
He suffered a bullet injury in one of his legs at the Mattan bus
stand, a police spokesman said. He said Bhat was admitted to a
hospital where doctors described his condition as stable.
The spokesman said people also took to the streets in K P Road in
Anantnag but there was no report of any casualty in the clashes that
ensued between the protestors and law enforcing agencies.
In Srinagar, agitators staged protest demonstrations in Maisuma
area, Zaldager, Galwanpora, the airport road, Nund Resh Colony,
Boatman colony in Bemina, Batmaloo and HMT Zainakote, he said. Five
persons were injured in the clashes.
In Baramulla town of north Kashmir where a teenager was killed
yesterday, people staged demonstrations in the town, Delina and
Khanpora and clashed with security forces resulting in injuries to
five persons, he said.
Additional contingents of police and paramilitary forces were
deployed in curfew-bound Sopore and other areas to maintain calm,
police sources said.
Two persons died and 65 others, including 32 policemen, were injured
in the violent clashes in various parts of the valley yesterday. One
of the two persons killed was a native of Baramulla.
Curfew, which was restricted to Sopore town since June 25, has been
extended to Baramulla as authorities apprehended trouble, police
said.
While hardline faction of Hurriyat Conference headed by jailed
leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani has given a call for a two-day strike,
the moderate Hurriyat Conference led by Mirwaiz Umer Farooq has
asked people to come on streets to protest the killing of youths by
security forces in Sopore and Baramulla.
Clashes between protestors and security forces have claimed the
lives of five persons since June 25 and eight in the last three
weeks in the valley.
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