Stone pelters on bikes attack Kashmir police station
Sunday August 28, 2011 05:43:50 PM,
IANS
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Srinagar:
Over 300 motorcycle-borne stone pelters attacked a police station
in this Jammu and Kashmir summer capital, injuring six policemen.
Over 70 attackers were arrested and 10 bikes were seized during
the clashes, which lasted for five hours, police said Sunday.
As Muslims throughout the Kashmir Valley prayed in mosques to
observe 'Shab-e-Qadr' -- the holiest night according to the Muslim
calendar -- the stone pelters attacked a police station Saturday
night, trying to re-enact the unrest witnessed here last year.
As security forces were busy facilitating the smooth conduct of
prayers at various mosques in the city, the men attacked the old
city's Nowhatta police station, a police statement said here.
"They tossed two petrol bombs on police. Six policemen were
injured, two of them seriously," the statement said.
Speaking to IANS, a senior police officer said: "The stone pelters
have of late been using motorcycles."
"The typical practice is that such bikes carry three people -- one
rides the bike, the man in the middle has stones in his lap and
the one at the back hurls them at the security forces... they move
at a menacing speed," he said.
It must be recalled that during last year's summer unrest,
Nowhatta police station in Srinagar city had been one of the main
targets of protesters.
Police stations, public property and security forces were the main
targets of unruly mobs in the valley last year, resulting in
bloody clashes between mobs and security forces in which over 100
people were killed.
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