Situation tense as fresh clashes erupt in South Kashmir
10 July 2016 7:20 PM IST10 July 2016 7:20 PM IST
More than 200 persons, including 96 security personnel were injured in violent clashes over Burhan Wani's death.
The Cabinet also asked the police and the security forces to exercise restraint to prevent loss of human lives. (Photo: HU Naqash/DC)- The authorities have also suspended the Internet services on mobile phones and through dongles as a precautionary measure'.
- Thousands of J&K policemen and CRPF personnel in riot gear are patrolling the deserted streets of Srinagar to enforce curfew.
- Kashmir's divisional commissioner, Asgar Hussain Samoon, said that curfew has been clamped on entire Kashmir Valley which has a population of over five million from the midnight to maintain law and order.
- Various cities and towns in northern and central Kashmir too have been brought under such restrictions or security lockdown is being maintained.
- The State Cabinet held an emergency meeting here with Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti, in chair to discuss the situation.
- As many as thirty additional companies of central forces which arrived here from Delhi in chartered flights have been moved in to enforce curfew in different towns of the Valley.
- The condition of half a dozen of protesters who received bullet wounds in security forces' firing is stated to be critical.
- Nearly 200 people including 96 security personnel were injured in daylong clashes on Saturday.
- The State Cabinet held an emergency meeting here with Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti, in chair to discuss the situation.
- As hospitals in the Valley continue to receive the injured in large numbers, a medical emergency has been declared.
- Meanwhile, unofficial reports put the death toll among the civilians to 17 with one more person succumbing to bullet injury in a hospital.
Fresh clashes broke out in South Kashmir on Sunday as unrest continued in the state over the death Burhan Muzaffar Wani, the new-age poster boy of militancy. Police sources said that a mob attacked a policeman and threw his vehicle into nearby river Jhelum. (Photo: H U Naqash)
More than 200 persons, including 96 security personnel were injured in violent clashes over Burhan Wani's death.
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