Youths were protesting the death of Wamik Farooq, 13, who was hit by a teargas shell on his head at Rajouri Kadal during a clash between a mob and police on Sunday.
At least 15 people, including seven securitymen, were injured in various parts of Srinagar today as clashes broke out between police and youths protesting the death of a teenager in tear-gas shelling on Sunday.
The clashes between angry mobs and police assisted by CRPF were continuing at over a dozen places here, even as more than 30 people were detained by police during night raids from various areas, official sources said.
The protests continued for the third day today despite stringent security arrangements. In view of the tense situation, shops and business establishments remained closed and transport kept off the roads. A separatist-sponsored general strike was observed in the city yesterday.
Reports of clashes between groups of youth and policemen were also received from Baramulla in North and Anantnag and Shopian district towns in South Kashmir this morning but life returned to normal as the day advanced, the sources said.
Police fired warning shots, used rubber bullets and burst teargas shells to disperse stone-pelting mobs at Nowhatta, Gojwara, Safakadal and Sakidaffer in downtown Srinagar.
The youths were protesting the death of 13-year-old Wamik Farooq, a resident of Rainawari, who was hit by a teargas shell on his head at Rajouri Kadal during a clash between a mob and police on Sunday. He later died in a hospital.
At least 100 people, including 30 police and paramilitary personnel, were injured in clashes between stone-pelting youths and law enforcement personnel here in the last two days. The areas in downtown Srinagar witnessed intense clashes for the third day today, resulting in injuries to two policemen and four protestors, the sources said adding station house officer of Nowhatta police station Raja Tasleem was also injured when a CRPF personnel allegedly hit him with a baton while he was trying to save a boy from being roughed up.
Police and CRPF men also fired teargas shells and used batons to disperse a procession taken out by mourners at Rainawari area of interior city, shortly after the chairman of moderate faction of Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Umer Farooq visited the residence of the deceased boy, the sources said.
The sources said personnel of Border Roads Organisation (BRO) opened fire in air when a group of youths pelted stones on one of their vehicles at Rawalpora on the outskirts of the city this afternoon, resulting in injuries to a jawan.
However, the protestors escaped as police reinforcements were sent to the spot to restore law and order, they said.
The sources said seven persons, including three securitymen, were injured in clashes in Batmaloo, Bemina, Kak Sarai, Chattabal, Karan Nagar, Maisuma, Rambagh and Natipora in uptown city.
Police and paramilitary forces have been deployed in strength all over the city. Residents of some areas alleged the CRPF personnel were not allowing them out of their houses saying that there is a curfew in place. However, police denied imposition of curfew in any part of the city but said strict instructions have been given to enforce prohibitory orders.
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