Meanwhile, Indian army soldiers on Sunday killed three suspected rebels near the heavily militarized line of control that divides disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir between India and Pakistan.
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SRINAGAR, India (AP) – Government forces sealed roads with barbed wire and steel barricades in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Friday to prevent a separatist protest march to a village where Indian troops killed four civilians and injured 15 others earlier this week.
India’s Central Reserve Police Force, which deploys a large contingent of paramilitaries in Held Kashmir, told a regional court that more than 100 people had been partly or completely blinded by shotgun pellets.
Curfew also remained in force in entire Srinagar district, Anantnag town, Pampore town, Shopian town, Khanpora in Baramulla, Ganderbal town and Kaloosa in Bandipora district today, the official said.
Normal life remained paralysed for the 42nd day in the Valley which has been rocked by violence after the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani in an encounter with security forces on July 8.
Local volunteers have engaged in a massive effort to get food and medicine to people in besieged neighborhoods, delivering items mostly at night and before dawn.
Interestingly, India also upped the ante by stating that the people in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) are “our own” and that India has a future strategy in place as far as PoK and Balochistan are concerned.
The rebels have been fighting against Indian rule since 1989.
An injured man is rushed to a hospital after he was injured during clashes between police and protesters, in Srinagar on August 5, 2016.
Kashmir is at the centre of a decades-old rivalry between India and Pakistan, which rules a northwestern section of the divided region, and backed an insurgency in the late 1980s and 1990s that Indian security forces largely crushed.
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Paramedics and ambulance drivers said they were attacked by government forces on the way.
