Another protester was killed yesterday in revolt-hit Indian Kashmir when security forces opened fire at demonstrators, bringing to five the number killed in two days.
The young man was shot dead as he and other demonstrators tried to attack a police camp northwest of Srinagar, the summer capital of Muslim-majority Indian Kashmir, police said.
The man was killed when “security forces opened fire as a group of protesters tried to attack a police camp,” a police officer said, asking not to be named.
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The death brings to five the number of people who have died in clashes with security forces since Friday afternoon. Several other demonstrators were injured, one of them seriously, in the incident in northern Naidkhai village, he said.
The deaths come as troops enforced a curfew in major towns in Indian Kashmir.
Yesterday, police said a fourth man, who had been seriously injured in the shooting at Patan, died in hospital early in the morning, raising the death toll to four.
Three people were killed on Friday in two separate incidents when security forces opened fire to disperse angry anti-India protesters in the northern towns of Sopore and Patan.
The fresh death came as authorities placed most of the Muslim-majority Kashmir valley under curfew.
“A curfew is in force in Srinagar and other major towns of the Kashmir Valley,” a police spokesman said.
Srinagar wore a deserted look as troops carrying rifles and batons patrolled the streets. Police and paramilitary forces were also deployed in strength in big towns to prevent demonstrations, the spokesman said.
Srinagar has been the focus of protests since June 11 when a 17-year-old student died after being hit by a police teargas shell.
Indian police and paramilitary forces, who have been struggling to control the wave of protests in the valley, have been accused of killing 22 civilians in less than two months.
Each death has sparked a new cycle of violence despite appeals for calm from state Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram.
The insurgency against New Delhi’s rule of Kashmir has claimed tens of thousands of lives, though the recent unrest is the worst for two years.
Nuclear-armed India and Pakistan each hold Kashmir in part but claim it in full and have fought two of their three wars over the region since the partition of the subcontinent in 1947.
Separatist politicians and armed rebels reject Indian rule in Kashmir and want to merge with Muslim-majority Pakistan or carve out an independent state.
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