Curfew-like-restrictions were imposed on Tuesday in Jammu and Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar and other towns to scuttle the separatist called marches.
A 17-year old youth was killed in violent clashes between protestors and security forces that erupted in Srinagar's old city areas after the Friday prayers.A senior police officer said Tufail Ahmad Mattoo, a class 12 student died while he was being shifted to hospital.
Srinagar continued to be on the boil for the third day with protestor-security force clashes rocking it even as strict curfew-like restrictions remained in force in the old city on Sunday.
A separatist sponsored protest shutdown on Tuesday paralysed life in Kashmir, even as fresh incidents of stone pelting re-occurred in parts of capital city Srinagar and other towns.
Several areas in Srinagar observed a shutdown on Monday to protest the death of a 16-year-old boy in clashes with the police, even as authorities suspended an assistance sub-inspector for acting in a "negligent and careless" manner.
Tension intensified in Srinagar on Friday after another schoolboy was killed near the famous Nishat Mughal garden on the outskirts of the city.Earlier, 13-year-old Wamik Farooq was killed in Srinagar on Sunday after he was hit by a teargas shell on his head at Rajouri Kadal in Srinagar, during a clash between a mob and the police.The school boy, Zahid Farooq Sheikh, 17, was shot in the chest. He was taken to the local hospital where he succumbed to his injuries today evening.
Tension gripped the old city area of Srinagar on Sunday evening after a youth died during clashes between policemen and protestors.Groups of slogan shouting youth took to the streets in Rajouri Kadal, Gojiwara and Kawdara areas of old city on Sunday afternoon, pelting stones at the police.During the ensuing clash, a 17-year old youth was hit by a tear smoke shell on his head, when the police and the CRPF intervened to restore order in the old city.
However, the attendance of devotees was thin as the people from adjoining localities only were not able to reach the grand mosque due to non-availability of public transport in view of the strike.
Violent clashes broke out between a group of youths and security forces in parts of the city on Saturday, leaving a youth and a policeman injured in stone pelting as separatist groups called a strike in Srinagar condemning the police action on Jamia Masjid on Friday.
Moderate Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umer Farooq was placed under house arrest on Wednesday, a day ahead of his proposed rally to commemorate the death anniversary of his father who was assassinated by gunmen in 1990, the conglomerate said.
'Thousands of people were stoning us, but we never fired back.'
Clashes broke out between youths and security forces in several areas of Srinagar and Anantnag districts after Eid prayers on Friday even as separatist leaders including Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq were put under house arrest as a precautionary measure.
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