All educational institutions, shops, public transport and other businesses have remained shut since July 9, a day after Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani was killed.
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Sources said the protesters shouted anti-India slogans and blocked the CRPF troopers’ forward movement in the area.
Despite tough curfew and restrictions, people at many places in Srinagar attempted to march towards the United Nations office.
An official spokesman said Lt Gen Dua called on Vohra at Raj Bhavan and briefed him about the internal and external security situation and the Army’s preparedness to deal with any arising exigency.
At Janglat Mandi in Anantnag district, five persons were injured when security forces opened fire to disperse a stone-pelting group of youth, the official said. Several others are also reported to have sustained injuries.
All the four killed persons were from Aripanthan village in Beerwah which is the home constituency of former chief minister Omar Abdullah. He identified the three slain as Javed Ahmad Najar, Manzoor Ahmad Lone, and Mohammad Ashraf Bhat. Six people received bullet injuries in the incident. “Their condition is very critical though they have been operated upon”, said a doctor at the hospital.
More than 60 people, mostly young men, have been since killed in clashes between protestors and security forces, and thousands more injured in the worst violence seen in the region for years.
Indian troops killed a total of seven militants on Monday in two incidents, five of them gunmen who had attempted a cross-border incursion and two more, who had attacked a Srinagar police station.
“19 RR based in Larkipora beat people indiscriminately and then resorted to aerial firing”, locals said, “now, over 10000 people have assembled and are marching towards the army camp”. One kid said that “I shall sue UNO for loss of Kashmiri life”.
Officially imposed curfew and separatist called shut down on Wednesday paralysed the lives of people in Kashmir Valley on the 40th consecutive day.
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While broadband services were snapped on Saturday evening, the mobile telephony was suspended late in the night on the same day.
