3 killed in Anantnag firing
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.
The latest killings were reported from the southern town of Anantnag, which was immediately placed under indefinite curfew. However, people defied the restrictions at many places, and violent mobs torched three CRPF vehicles and two ambulances and atta-cked a police post following the firing deaths. A crowd marched into a bus terminus and set fire to or damaged 15 state transport buses.
Earlier, a bus carrying tourists from Pahalgam was also attacked with stones at Payabug Pattan, in the town’s outskirts, injuring four persons.
Officials said large-scale violence had erupted at Anantnag and things had “gone out of control”, and the Army might be called out. SMS service has been banned in the Valley and mobile services have been suspended in Baramulla, Kupwara and Bandipore.
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