Police issue shoot-on-sight orders in Kashmir
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In overnight protests, demonstrators set fire to a police vehicle in Charar-e-Sharief, 30 miles (45 kilometers) southwest of Srinagar.
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People carry the body of Nisar Ahamad Kuchay, a Kashmiri youth, during his funeral in Humhama on the outskirts of Srinagar, September 13, 2010. [Agencies] |
In Zainakote, a village near Srinagar, paramilitary soldiers fired at curfew-defying protesters, wounding at least two Tuesday. More clashes erupted in the village after the shooting, the police officer said.
In Tangmarg, which was rocked by massive protests Monday, nearly three dozen people were arrested in the wake of the violence, said a police officer, also on condition of anonymity. Town residents said about 30 men were missing since the clashes with police.
The region has been roiled for months by separatist protests that often descend into clashes with government forces. The violence has killed at least 88 people this summer, mostly teenage boys and young men in their 20s.
The anti-India protests turned into rare anti-US protests Monday as reports of a Quran desecration in the United States intensified the anger of demonstrators, with activists chanting "Down with America" and burning an effigy of President Barack Obama. Protesters torched government buildings and a Christian missionary school and threw rocks at troops, who responded by firing live ammunition into crowds.
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