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Srinagar:
Amid spiralling violence, shoot- at-sight orders were on Tuesday
issued by police in curfew-bound Srinagar as three more persons were
killed in firing by security forces. With this, the death toll since
last Friday has gone up to 26.
The shoot-at-sight orders were
announced through public address systems fitted in police vans in
areas of Dal Gate, Residency Road and All India Radio Crossing in
the city, police said.
Protesters defied curfew restrictions in Srinagar, Budgam, Bandipora,
Awantipora, Kulgam and Baramulla and indulged in heavy stone pelting
on security personnel. They attacked public and police properties at
a number of places, a police spokesman said.
“Security forces had to open fire for self defence and for dispersal
of mobs at few places, in which three persons have lost their lives
and a number of police and CRPF men got injured,” he said.
Reports said that residents of the
Qamarwari area in downtown Srinagar defied the curfew and took part
in several demonstrations. They refused to heed security forces
demands to disperse.
This resulted in security forces firing on them.
Twenty-five-year-old Mehraj Ahmed Lone was killed and three others
were injured. In a separate incident, a stone-pelter identified as
Anis Khurshid was killed when security forced opened fire to
disperse protestors in the Eidgah area, police said.
In Budgam, two persons were injured in security-related firing and
have been hospitalised, police said.
Meanwhile, the Centre has decided to
send 1900 paramilitary personnel to the valley, while another 3,200,
currently based in the state, will be redeployed in trouble-torn
areas.
The additional forces are being sent following a request from Jammu
and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to the Centre to help
tackle the situation in the Valley politically, rather than
economically.
Official sources said 19 companies ( of 100 personnel each) of
Central paramilitary forces will reach Kashmir Valley within a day
or two from outside the state.
32 companies (3,200 personnel) currently posted in different parts
of Jammu and Kashmir will be redeployed in the trouble-torn
districts of Kashmir.
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