SRINAGAR: Police have used force to break up anti-India demonstrations at several places in Kashmir valley which remains under an indefinite curfew for the seventh consecutive day today.
At least one person has been wounded at Naidkhai in Bandipora district where more protesters, more than a thousand in number, pelted the police with stones.
It is not immediately clear whether he received a bullet or was hit by a tear smoke shell.
In Aloosa area of Bandipora hundreds of protests set fire to a police post, police say.
Protests and clashes were also reported from Azad Gunj in north Kashmir’s Baramulla, Handwara and Ajas and Hajin in Bandipora district, Muran in South Kashmir’s Pulwama, Qaimoh in Kulgam and Chrari Shareef in Central Kashmir’s Budgam district.
In Srinagar, clashes were reported from Saraf kadal area and Sazgarpora areas.
“Three policemen were injured in a pelting incident at Handwara and Charar-i-Sharief,” the spokesperson added.
The curfew is being strictly enforced in Srinagar and other major towns of the valley to foil a march to the Martyr’s Cemetery at Eidgah in Srinagar.
Senior separatist leader, Syed Ali Shah Geelani had asked people to converge at Eidgah to offer prayers for Mohammad Afzal Guru, hanged and buried in Delhi’s Tihar jail on Saturday.
Three youth have died during clashes between protesters and the police and paramilitaries in the past seven days.
Several others have been maimed.
