SRINAGAR: A youth was killed and over 30 were injured today in clashes between stone-pelting mobs and security forces in Kashmir where curfew was imposed in some parts of Srinagar district and restrictions were in place elsewhere in the valley in view of separatist call for protests.
A 22-year-old youth Wasim Ahmad Lone died when security forces opened fire to disperse a stone-pelting mob in Nadihal area on Sopore-Kupwara road in Baramulla district, police said.
The incident occurred when a mob targeted a convoy of security forces by pelting stones as it was on its way from Sopore to Kupwara, a police official said.
To disperse the mob, the security forces opened fire in which Lone was injured in the chest. He was rushed to district hospital Baramulla but the doctors declared him ‘brought dead’, the official said.
The local residents, however, claimed that Lone was not part of the protestors and was harvesting paddy in his field when the army opened fire.
The police official said the law enforcing agencies were trying to restore order in the area.
Following the death, fresh protests broke out in Nadihal and adjoining areas, the police official said. (AGENCIES)
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