SRINAGAR: A curfew has been imposed in Zanskar town of Ladakh region in Jammu and Kashmir following clashes between members of the majority Buddhist community and police.
The Buddhists are fuming over the elopement of a girl of their community with a Muslim boy.
The duo were captured by the police in Srinagar, nearly 200 kms away from their home.
Today, while the police took the girl back to Zanskar, a mob of around 500 people stopped the vehicle at Padam, demanding that she be handed over to them.
The police used force to disperse them. The girl was later handed over to her parents.
Later hundreds of protestors gathered at Phutang where they again clashed with the police. Two protesters were wounded, one of them having received a bullet.
Senior officers of the district administration have rushed to the town.
Tension has prevailed between the Buddhists and the minority Muslim community in Zanskar since a few Buddhist families converted to Islam last fall.
