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| India-Pakistan |
| Kashmir Korpse Kount |
| 2010-07-07 |
| Three protesters were killed by security forces Tuesday in one of the deadliest days of violence in mainly Muslim Indian Kashmir as stone-hurling demonstrators crowded the streets. The killings came as protesters surged on to the streets of Srinagar, the main city of Indian Kashmir, burning tyres and shouting, “We want freedom” and “blood for blood” following a spate of killings in the Muslim-majority region. Tuesday’s shooting death of a 16-year-old teenager brought to three the number of killings of protesters in 12 hours by security forces, police said. Police said the 16-year-old youth was killed when he and other demonstrators defied a curfew and pelted stones at security forces and set fire to a police building. After the latest killings, Kashmiris jammed mosques across Srinagar shouting: “Go, India, go back.” Loudhailers at the mosques carried the call through the streets. Earlier on Tuesday, “a 30-year-old young man was killed when security forces opened fire at a very violent rally, and a woman was killed by firing at a different demonstration in Srinagar”, a police officer, who declined to be named, told AFP. No further details were immediately available. |
| Posted by:Steve White |