Police lob teargas shells to quell protestors in Srinagar

Curfew is being strictly enforced in Sopore,Baramulla,Anantnag and several areas of Srinagar.

Police on Wednesday fired teargas shells to disperse stone-pelting mobs at a few places in Srinagar even as more violence-hit areas were brought under curfew in South Kashmir,where three youths have been killed in alleged CRPF firing.

Protestors,including women,took to the streets at Natipora and Batmaloo areas here and staged demonstrations against the killings that have rocked the valley for the past few days,police said.

Police and paramilitary forces,which have been deployed in strength to maintain law and order,lobbed teargas shells to disperse the demonstrators at Natipora and Batmaloo in central Srinagar.

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Police said there were no reports of any casualty in the clashes during which protestors indulged in pelting stones at security personnel.

However,locals alleged that several persons were beaten up ruthlessly by the CRPF personnel.

Curfew was clamped in Bijbehara,Mattan,Dooru,Kokernag,Achhabal,Pahalgam in Anantnag district and Kulgam district this morning. Efforts were on to enforce the curfew in Sopore,Baramulla and Anantnag and seven police station areas of Srinagar,police said.

Additional contingents of paramilitary and police units have been deployed to ensure effective enforcement of curfew,they said.

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Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had yesterday made an appeal for peace and vowed to ensure return of normalcy soon.

Slamming anti-national and vested interests for instigating violence,he had said that “wherever curfew has been imposed it will be enforced strictly. The cycle of violence has to stop”.

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