Three more people, including two women, killed in Kashmir, curfew and shutdown continue
Two people, including a woman, were killed when the Army opened fire in “self-defence against a stone pelting crowd at Devsar near Qazigund in Kulgam district on Monday evening.
Another woman succumbed to her injuries in the Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences here on Monday night, reports quoted officials as saying. officials said.
An Army mobile domination patrol party, while moving towards Devsar, tried to clear a road blockade erected by the local people at Churaht near Qazigund, but came under heavy stone-pelting from two sides.
“Some miscreants also tried to snatch weapons from them and tried to set ablaze the vehicles,” reports quoted the spokesman as saying.
“Despite repeated warnings the mob did not disperse and the Army fired in self-defence to move out from the spot,” the spokesman added.
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