Indian troops have killed one more youth in Srinagar, raising the death toll in the ongoing protests in Kashmir to 104.
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Tension escalated in the summer capital Srinagar on Saturday after killing of a teenage student in Harwan area of the city last evening, following which the authorities imposed strict restriction in the city and peripheries in anticipation of protests.
The boy had gone missing after the clashes between protesters and security forces, where he had suffered pellet-ridden injuries, the official said. Thousands of people attended his funeral prayers at his native Dalipora village of Pulwama district in south Kashmir on Friday.
“The boy was missing since Friday 5 p.m. Villagers searched for him in the area where the protesters were chased and found the body near the Dachigam gate”, Mubarik, a villager who gave only his first name, told IANS.
In total, the hospital, which has a full-fledged ophthalmology department, on Friday admitted 21 persons with pellet injuries to eyes and other parts of body.
Restrictions on assembly of people continued in the rest of the Valley to maintain law and order, he said.
Fearing protests after Friday prayers, security forces had imposed curfew in parts of Srinagar and in the towns of Anantnag, Pulwama, Shopian, Baramulla and Handwara.
All educational institutions, main markets, public transports and other businesses have remained closed in Kashmir Valley for the past 70 days.
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Mobile telephone, except postpaid connections of BSNL, and internet including broadband sevice continued to remain snapped across the Valley since 4 PM on September 12.
