Youth death sparks violent stir
An irate mob on Saturday torched an Army vehicle after a cyclist Yasir Ahmed Wani was crushed to death by it in Jammu and Kashmir’s southern town of Anantnag. The incident has sparked off widespread protests in the area and police and CRPF reinforcements have been rushed in to control the situation.
Latest reports said the clashes between irate crowds and the police have spread to new Anantnag areas and the latter have fired rifle shots over the heads of the protesters and also used teargas to disperse the stone-throwing mobs at a few places.
The police said that youth was hit by a three-tone Army vehicle, resulting into his instant death. Soon huge crowds chanting slogans against the Army and the government took to the streets and groups of youth pelted the Army convoy with stones. The police said that the angry crowds set the vehicle involved in the accident along the town’s K.P. Road on fire soon after the police had evacuated the Army personnel on board to safety, along with their weapons. Fire tenders was called to put out the blaze. However, it was partially damaged.
In subsequent clashes with irate mobs, two policemen were injured. The former also attacked running private and public transport vehicles with stones and other missiles causing damage to these. “However, the situation has been brought under control,” a police spokesperson said here.
Opposition PDP patron and former chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and the party Mehbooba Mufti while expressing their grief over the tragic death of youth asked the government to “understand the prevailing anger among the people due to the tragedy and tackle the issue with humanistic approach instead of adopting oppressive measures.”
Meanwhile, six persons, five of them from Bihar, were killed when a Winger they were travelling in from Jammu to Srinagar collided with a Traller at Sesman Damgan along the highway connecting Jammu and Kashmir’s twin capitals on Saturday.
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