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Srinagar:
Violence gripped parts of Kashmir Valley on Saturday as protestors
attacked a CRPF patrol party, tried to set a railway station on fire
and clashed with security forces who fired to quell the mob, leaving
a teenager dead and over 10 others injured.
With the death of the teenager, a total of five persons have been
killed since the fresh outbreak of violence on Friday. In the wake
of the protests, authorities imposed indefinite curfew in major
towns of the Kashmir Valley.
17-year old girl Gulshana was killed 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. Security forces then opened fire in which four
persons were injured.
Five more persons were injured when protestors tried to set a
railway station on fire at Amargarh in Sopore, 55 kms from Srinagar.
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 on Friday 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. Curfew
passes given to media persons have also been cancelled, police said.
This is the second time this month that curfew passes have been
cancelled. On July six, curfew passes were cancelled when the army
was deployed in the city.
Security forces on Friday opened fire to quell stone-pelting
protesters who clashed with them at several places. Shoukat Ahmad
Chopan and Mohammad Ahsan Ganai were killed and seven others injured
yesterday when security forces opened fire on a mob at Arampora
village of Sopore, 55 kms from here in Baramulla district of north
Kashmir.
People had Friday taken to the streets shortly after Friday prayers
and were heading towards Sopore town when the security forces
intercepted them and asked them to disperse.
However, the protesters turned violent and indulged in stone-pelting
on a CRPF picket. The security personnel opened fire, resulting in
injuries to seven persons who were rushed to hospital. Chopan and
Ganai succumbed to injuries at SMHS hospital here, they said.
Seven persons were also injured when police opened fire after a
group of youths went on rampage and set ablaze a vehicle parked
inside police station Pattan, 27 kms from here on Srinagar-Baramulla
national highway, police said.
The clashes come nearly 10 days after a person was killed and
another injured in police firing in self-defence on a mob which
turned violent during funeral of youth who had drowned in Jhelum
river in Baramulla district.
Condemning the killings, Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
had said yesterday that such incidents were contributing to an
"unprecedented worsening of situation".
PDP general secretary Mohammad Dilawar Mir, in a statement here,
accused the state administration of failing to perform its duty.
The state unit of CPI(M) also expressed grief and shock over the
killings.
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