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 today.
In Anantnag, 65 kms from Srinagar, 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 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 told PTI. He said Bhat was admitted to a hospital where doctors described his condition as stable.
{{/usCountry}}He suffered a bullet injury in one of his legs at the Mattan bus stand, a police spokesman told PTI. He said Bhat was admitted to a hospital where doctors described his condition as stable.
{{/usCountry}}The spokesman said people also took to the streets in KP 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 on Monday, people staged demonstrations in the town, Delina and Khanpora and clashed with security forces resulting in injuries to five persons, he said.