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Man's death sparks protests in Srinagar
A 25-year-old died of his injuries in Srinagar on Thursday, three days after being hit by a tear gas shell, triggering fresh protests in Srinagar amid continuing security restrictions in the old city areas.
- IANS
- Published: 22:30 June 4, 2009
- A Kashmiri woman shouts slogans as mourners carry the body of Nisar Bhat during his funeral in Srinagar on Thursday.
- Image Credit: Reuters
Srinagar: A 25-year-old died of his injuries here on Thursday, three days after being hit by a tear gas shell, triggering fresh protests in Srinagar amid continuing security restrictions in the old city areas.
Nisar Ahmad Bhat had been battling for life in the Soura medical institute after sustaining a serious head injury on Monday evening.
He had been hit by a tear gas shell during violent protests in the Barzalla locality of Jammu and Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar.
His body was handed over to his relatives by police in the morning.
As news of his death spread, hundreds came out on the Srinagar airport road at Barzalla, Rambagh and Hyderpora and started throwing stones at security forces.
They also targeted passing vehicles uptown. Police and the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) responded by firing warning shots and repeated tear gassing and baton charges.
High tension has gripped the uptown localities. Hundreds of people also tried to march towards the Hyderpora residence of hardline separatist leader, Syed Ali Geelani, who was released hours after his arrest by police on Wednesday. However, police chased them away.
The valley-wide protests which began on Monday were triggered by the alleged rape and murder of two women by the security forces in south Kashmir's Shopian town last Saturday.
Police stopped a delegation of the Kashmir Bar Association from visiting Shopian on Thursday morning. Mobs pelted stones at police in the Soura locality in the capital city and in north Kashmir's Bandipore area in the morning.
Life continued to be crippled by a protest shutdown in Kashmir for the fourth consecutive day. Shops, businesses, government offices, banks, educational institutions are shut here and in other towns of the valley.
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