Several parts of Kashmir Valley erupted again on Friday leaving scores injured in clashes between protesters and security forces.
Several parts of Kashmir Valley erupted again on Friday leaving scores injured in clashes between protesters and security forces.
During one such face-off in Baramulla district, the security forces used shotgun pellets to quell violent protesters, leaving two of them critically injured.
Earlier at dawn, curfew was imposed in parts of Srinagar in view of the separatists’ call for occupying the city’s historic Lal Chowk and in anticipation of protests and violence after the Friday congregational prayers.
Though no Friday prayers were allowed in the major mosques including Srinagar’s Jamia Masjid, people in large numbers took to the streets to chant pro-freedom slogans after saying prayers at locality mosques across the Valley. Also funeral prayers in absentia were offered at some places for the two Pakistani soldiers killed in the Indian firing on Wednesday night.
The officials said that curfew remained in force in a few police station areas of central Srinagar and also in Batamaloo and Maisuma areas. Lal Chowk was earlier sealed by security forces, witnesses said.
Elsewhere, normal life continued to remain affected for the 84th consecutive day due to the separatists’ call for shutdown.
