At least three persons were on Tuesday injured as police lobbed tear gas shells and used batons to disperse hundreds of people in Anantnag district protesting the death of five youths in alleged firing by CRPF.
People belonging to different areas of Anantnag assembled at Mattan bus stand this morning to protest the killing of five youths in Sopore and Baramulla, police said.
Police and paramilitary forces deployed in the town, 65 km from here, asked them to disperse but when they refused to budge, they fired tear gas shells and batons to disperse them.
Protestors then pelted stones at security forces and in the ensuing clashes, three persons were injured.
One of the injured was rushed to Srinagar in a critical condition, police said.
Two persons, including a nine-year-old boy, were killed on Monday in Kashmir valley in alleged firing by the CRPF during clashes with mobs protesting fatal shootings involving security forces.
On June 25, two youths were killed in alleged firing by CRPF after the security personnel were attacked by protesters following an encounter in which two militants were gunned down in Sopore.
Curfew
Curfew was imposed in Jammu and Kashmir’s Sopore and Baramulla towns and vehicular traffic was restricted in old city areas of summer capital Srinagar on Tuesday, a day after two youths were killed in widespread violence.
Additional security men have been deployed in Sopore and Baramulla towns to restore order there, police said.
Vehicular and pedestrian movement was not allowed in five police station areas of Khanyar, Rainawari, Nowhatta, M.R. Gunj and Safa Kadal to tackle separatist violence here.
Traffic intersections in the old city areas were also blocked with coils of razor fitted wire.
Separatist leaders of both the hard-line and the moderate Hurriyat groups have called for a two-day shutdown across the Valley to protest security force excesses.
