At least 25 people, including 10 policemen, were injured in clashes between stone-pelting young men protesting against the killing of a teenager and police in several parts of the city.
At least 25 people, including 10 policemen, were injured today in clashes between stone-pelting young men protesting against the killing of a teenager and police in several parts of the city even as several Hurriyat Conference leaders were put under house arrest ahead of their planned march.
Police fired tear-gas shells and used batons on young men who threw stones and bricks at them in Saidakadal, native place of 17-year-old Tufail Ahmad Mattoo whose death in a clash between security forces and stone-pelting protesters last week has sparked protests in the Kashmir valley and in other areas.
Clashes also occurred in Rainawari, Bemina, Kralpora and Tengpora areas, official sources said, adding that 25 people, including 10 policemen, were injured.
People also took out processions against the killing of Mattoo in Anantnag town in South Kashmir and Baramulla and Sopore towns in North Kashmir, but the protesters dispersed peacefully.
Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, chairman of the moderate faction of the All-Parties Hurriyat Conference, and other leaders of the amalgamation were placed under house arrest by the authorities, who imposed restrictions on the movement of people to foil the separatists' planned march to express solidarity with the teenager's family.
The mirwaiz accused the police of dilly-dallying on ascertaining the cause of death of Tufail.
Attacking the National Conference-led coalition government in the state, he said it had failed to arrest "lawlessness and state terrorism in the state.
"Police is deliberately adopting dilly-dallying tactics to cover its misdeeds with regard to killing of the teenager Tufail," he said in a statement.
Normal life continued to be disrupted in the city for the third day today with markets, banks, educational institutions and semi-government establishments remaining closed and traffic off the roads.
The authorities also cancelled examinations scheduled for the day in the Kashmir valley.
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