Youth killed, 5 hurt in fresh clashes as curfew lifted in Kashmir

Ehsan Fazili

Tribune News Service

Srinagar, August 31

A youth was killed and five others were injured in two fresh incidents of violence that took place at Sopore in Baramulla district on Wednesday morning.

Danish was killed and at five others were injured when the security forces opened fire on protesters at Ladoora village near Sopore. The police said the protesters pelted a convoy of the Army that was moving through the area with stones, which the Army retaliated.

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One of the injured later succumbed to his injuries, taking the death toll in the current unrest to 71.

But according to locals, including one Abdul Gaffar, the security forces raided the village and resorted to firing, killing the youth and injuring several others.

Protests were also held at the fruit market, Sopore, against the security forces that allegedly did not let apple-growers transact business in the early hours.

As curfew was lifted from all areas of downtown Srinagar, clashes between protesters and police erupted again in the capital city on Wednesday morning on day 54 of the current unrest.

Curfew was lifted from areas falling under police stations of Nowhatta and MR Gunj in the old city on Wednesday, while it was lifted from other areas of the city on Monday.

There were reports of stone-pelting and clashes from downtown areas with the protesters erecting road blockades and restricting the movement of vehicular traffic.