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Strike against fuel price hike cripples Kashmir
Dozens of protesters threw stones at a government adviser's car Wednesday during a strike to protest a recent fuel price hike in the Indian portion of Kashmir, police said.
- Agencies
- Published: 17:06 June 11, 2008
Srinagar: Dozens of protesters threw stones at a government adviser's car Wednesday during a strike to protest a recent fuel price hike in the Indian portion of Kashmir, police said.
One armed guard was injured in the attack, but Manzoor Ahmed, an adviser to the top elected official of India's Jammu-Kashmir state, escaped unhurt, said Prabhakar
Tripathy, a spokesman of paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force.
Businesses, schools and roads were shut down in the region and streets were largely empty for a straight third day in Srinagar, the main city in the state, after a large traders group called the strike in the Himalayan region.
The strike was in protest of Indian authorities hiking subsidised gasoline prices by about 10 percent last week to offset soaring international oil prices.
Government forces fired tear gas and used batons to disperse the protesters who hurled rocks at them.
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