Clashes injure 20 in Valley
Kashmir Valley on Thursday again witnessed clashes between protesting mobs and security forces at a number of places leaving over twenty people injured, half a dozen of them with bullet injuries. Protesters chanting separatist slogans defied curfew at several places, including in Srinagar’s Rainawari and Soura areas accusing the CRPF of “vandalising” their homes.
Meanwhile, the toll in CRPF and police firings since June 11, when the Kashmir Valley erupted after the killing of a Srinagar student when his skull was smashed by a police teargas shell, rose to sixty, following the death of an eight-year-old boy died in a hospital here early Thursday.
Half a dozen residents, including three women sustained bullet injuries when a joint party of police and CRPF troopers opened fire on demonstrators at Soura here later during the day. The injured included three members of a family who alleged that the CRPF men barged into their house in close vicinity of a Muslim shrine outside which people were holding a protest claiming that the security forces were not allowing them to offer prayers there.
However, the police said that the security forces used force to quell a stone-throwing mob at Jenab Sahib Soura. Habib-ullah Tiploo, his daughter, Sumeera, and daughter-in-law, Fatima, received bullet wounds when security forces opened fire to disperse the protestors outside the shrine, a witness said. According to Mr Prabhakar Tripathy, a spokesperson for the CRPF, its contingent deployed in the area was attacked by 1,000 angry protesters on which the security personnel resorted to aerial firing.
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