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India-Pakistan

Six protesters killed in Kashmir firing

2013-07-19

Indian paramilitary forces on Thursday shot dead six people protesting against an alleged incident involving troops in a religious seminary in Kashmir, two police officers said. Troops fired on protesters who had gathered outside a Border Security Force (BSF) station in the district of Gool, 230km south of the main city of Srinagar, the officers said on condition of anonymity.

It is mayhem. Six are dead and dozens injured. The death toll could rise further, said one officer.

"Dere we was, mindin' our own bidness, when all of a sudden..."

Protesters clashed with troops over an incident on Wednesday evening in the seminary attached to a mosque in Gool, witnesses said. The head of the seminary, Qari Shabir, said four BSF troopers came into the seminary looking for militants, at the same time that a caretaker of the seminary was alone reciting prayers for Ramadan.

They beat him up... That is when Abdul Lateef (the caretaker) raised an alarm and people started to assemble and the word spread, Shabir told AFP by telephone from Gool.

Other local residents said the troops had entered the mosque to complain about the loud recitation of prayers by worshippers during the holy month of Ramadan.

The angry protesters clashed outside the station on Thursday with troops who started firing, witnesses said.

Couldn't help themselves, could they...

The BSF soldiers fired indiscriminately, downing protesters left, right and centre, one witness who declined to be identified said by telephone from the nearby village of Dharam.

"And we was doin' was throwin' dem bricks at 'em. I asks yas what's wrong wit throwin' a brick at an infidel, huh? Huh?"

Posted by:Steve White

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