Protests in Indian Kashmir despite curfew
Wednesday, 27 August 2008
SRINAGAR, Aug 26 (AFP): Indian police used teargas and gunfire to disperse hundreds of protesters in Kashmir on Tuesday as the death toll among defiant demonstrators rose to five, officials said.
Officers said they also used batons as protesters broke a curfew and gathered in southern Achabal village a day after four people were killed in police shootings and over 100 injured in clashes as the restrictions were flouted. One of the injured died in hospital Tuesday, doctors said.
"A strict curfew remains in force all over the Kashmir valley," police officer Pervez Ahmed said in summer capital Srinagar, as New Delhi tried to end a series of major demonstrations against its rule in the mainly Muslim region.
Officers said they also used batons as protesters broke a curfew and gathered in southern Achabal village a day after four people were killed in police shootings and over 100 injured in clashes as the restrictions were flouted. One of the injured died in hospital Tuesday, doctors said.
"A strict curfew remains in force all over the Kashmir valley," police officer Pervez Ahmed said in summer capital Srinagar, as New Delhi tried to end a series of major demonstrations against its rule in the mainly Muslim region.