Three more youths were killed and four others wounded in CRPF firing in the Kashmir Valley on Tuesday as crowds chanting separatist slogans continued to pour out on to the streets, fighting pitched battles with the police and the CRPF in some places.

Mobile services in north Kashmir and SMS service in the entire valley have been blocked on the instructions of the state government following incidents of violence, an official said on Tuesday.

International People’s Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Indian-Administered Kashmir (IPTK), a pressure group, on Tuesday accused the both the Centre and chief minister Omar Abdullah of patronising the security forces involved in the killing of civilians in Jammu and Kashmir.

As the cycle of violence has only escalated and public rage is finding expression on the streets, Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday blamed the anti-national forces and vested interests for the crisis.

Violence continued in Kashmir Valley as three more youth were killed and four others badly hurt in CRPF firing in the on Tuesday. Crowds chanting pro-freedom slogans continued to pour out on the streets and at places fought pitched battles with the police and the CRPF. Already, Army columns were deployed at sensitive locations in

The Kashmir Valley has witnessed widespread protests during which irate mobs attacked a police station, several vehicles of the police, paramilitary forces and those carrying a group of government employees returning home from the civil secretariat here.

At least two more persons — including a nine-year-old boy — were killed when the CRPF opened fire to quell protesters and stone-throwing mobs at two different places outside Sopore town on Monday, raising the death toll in the past three weeks to eight.

UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Monday laid the foundation stone of the strategic 8.8-km-long Rohtang tunnel through the Himalayan ranges at Manali.
Defence minister A.K. Antony was also present on the occasion besides several dignitaries, including Himachal Pradesh chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal. However, J

At least one person was killed and another seriously wounded when the police opened fire to break up a protest demonstration in the curfew-bound Kashmiri town of Sopore on Sunday. Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah spoke to Union home minister, P. Chidambaram over the phone late on Sunday evening to express his “strong concern” over the recent deaths of civilians in CRPF firings.

Police and CRPF reinforcements have fanned out in Srinagar and all other major towns of the Valley in anticipation of disturbances spreading after another youth was killed when the police fired rubber bullets to quell an irate crowd in Sopore on Sunday.