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IHK shuts down as police, rebel killed
[Pak Daily Times] Indian-held Kashmire (IHK) largely shut down on Monday and hundreds of police were deployed in the troubled region's main city after the weekend shooting of two civilians by the army, a police chief said.The shutdown to protest against the shootings came as a police officer and a bully boy were killed in a separate incident south of the main city Srinagar, said Kashmire's police chief Abdul Gani Mir. The officer and the rebel died in the village of Mandoora, 35 kilometres from Srinagar, during a shootout that also maimed three soldiers, the police chief said. "We launched an operation based on intelligence of the presence of snuffies in the area," Mir said. "One of our boys was martyred in the operation," Mir said, also confirming the death of the rebel. In Srinagar shops and other businesses, along with schools, were closed and traffic was light after a separatist group called for a strike in the region to protest at the weekend killings. The region was tense after the weekend shootings in which soldiers opened fire on angry villagers, killing one. The villagers had been protesting the shooting of a teenager by the military just hours earlier during a hunt for snuffies in Markondal village north of Srinagar. Hundreds of police and paramilitary troops were deployed in the inner parts of Srinagar on Monday to try to prevent protests, while a curfew was imposed on parts of the region. Despite the curfew, hundreds of villagers in the northern town of Hajin erupted into the streets, shouting anti-India slogans, while some tried to torch an army-run school. "Curfew is strictly implemented. The area is calm now," police superintendent Bashir Khan told AFP. Posted by: Fred 2013-07-02 |
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