After five days of violence, the Kashmir Valley today remained by and large peaceful as security forces enforced curfew and kept a close vigil on the law-and-order situation.
After five days of violence, the Kashmir Valley today remained by and large peaceful as security forces enforced curfew and kept a close vigil on the law-and-order situation.
"The situation in the Kashmir Valley remained by and large peaceful," a state government spokesman said.
Meanwhile, one Iqbal Ahmed Khan from Chanapora, who had received a bullet injury on July 30, passed away at a hospital in Soura, he said.
With this, the number of people killed in the violence in the Valley since last Friday has gone up to 29.
Giving details about minor incidents since this morning, the spokesman said that one vehicle of the 9th India Reserve Battalion was damaged in Pampore by some protestors while one condemned Gypsy vehicle was set on fire in Qamarwari area.
In Shopian, a mob attacked the Forest Protection Force complex comprising about 10 buildings and tried to set the complex on fire and the vehicles parked in the compound.
The police party, which immediately reached the spot, was able to save eight buildings and three vehicles, he said.
However, protestors set ablaze two buildings and gutted one vehicle, he said.
The police said that a group of agitators pelted stones on passing vehicles on the Srinagar-Leh national highway but no one was hurt.
Curfew remained clamped in the violence-hit Valley with restrictions continuing in all the 10 districts of Kashmir for the sixth day.
Meanwhile, hardline Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani made a surprise appeal to agitators not to indulge in arson but demonstrate peacefully.
The 80-year-old Jamaat-e-Islami leader said that those indulging in stone pelting, burning offices, railway stations and vehicles "did not belong to the Kashmir movement" and were only causing harm to the issue.
Geelani, who was recently released from the custody by state government, asked people to undertake peaceful demonstrations and stage sit-in wherever they are stopped.
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