Residents of Nadihal village in Sopore attacked army personnel with stones for refusing entry to trucks carrying fruits.
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Divisional commissioner Kashmir Baseer Ahmad Khan said curfew has been completely lifted from all the areas of the Kashmir Valley following improvement in the situation.
Three areas falling under the control of Nowhatta and M.R.Gunj police stations in Srinagar city along with Baramulla are subjected to the curfew, a senior police official told news agency IANS.
After two days of relative peace, a teenager was killed in firing by security forces Wednesday as more violent clashes erupted in the Kashmir Valley, officials and witnesses said.
Security forces were rushed back to quell the protests after which the protesters started pelting stones at them.
As curfew was lifted from all 10 districts, violence singed the Kashmir Valley on Wednesday, leaving a civilian dead and over 100 injured.
Many youth were injured in Trehgam area of Kupwara district when Indian forces fired teargas shells, pellets and other ammunition on the protestors.
Police said the incident took place hours after security forces fired pellets at protesters shouting anti-government and pro-freedom slogans in a nearby Katrusoo village. Witnesses said several traders were wounded in clashes when forces entered into the Mandi early morning and asked the traders to stop their business activities.
Acute shortage of food and medicines has also been adding to the woes of the people already at the mercy of Indian police and paramilitary forces, who regularly abuse them and ransack their properties.
Meanwhile Various Sikh organisations of Jammu and Kashmir today condemned the use of force against protesters in the Valley and appealed to the world community and the United Nations to take serious note of the situation.
Kashmiri separatist groups have extended their shutdown call till the end of the month to press for their demands, which include an end to Indian rule in the Himalayan region.
Several rebel groups have for decades fought Indian soldiers – now numbering around 500,000 – deployed in the territory.
Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistan and claimed by both.
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Since the armed rebellion against Indian rule began in 1989, tens of thousands of civilians have died in the fighting.
