SRINAGAR: Scores of people, including personnel of the police and paramilitaries, have been wounded in protests across the valley over the death of a young man in north Kashmir on Tuesday, reports say.
Tahir Ahmed Sofi was killed after the Army fired live bullets in Baramulla. He was hit in the head and chest.
Security forces lobbed tearsmoke shells and resorted to cane charge to disperse protesters who chanted anti-India slogans at Batmaloo in Srinagar.
Several persons, including some security personnel, were injured as the demonstrators and riot police pelted each other with rocks.
Officials told the United News of India that more than 70 people in total have been wounded, including those with minor wounds, in stone pelting incidents at Kupwara, Sopore and Baramulla in north Kashmir.
Reports of demonstration and stone pelting were also received from city outskirts like Machowa on Srinagar-Charar-e-Sharief road.
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