Police post set afire in Sopore, Kashmir continues to simmer
July 11, 2016 17:21
Just in: A police post has been set on fire by protesters in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir.
The state continued to be on the boil with six more people, including a cop, getting killed in violence on Sunday, raising the death toll to 23, even as curfew-like restrictions were in place and mobile internet services remained suspended.
The Amarnath Yatra has begun today to the unrest in the valley in which over 200 people, many of them police and security personnel, have been injured.
The Jammu and Kashmir Cabinet, headed by Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, met and expressed anguish over the situation and the death of civilians in clashes with security forces following the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani.
The government promised to investigate if there was any instance of disproportionate use of force by security forces even as it appealed to the people not to become tools in the machinations of instigators of violence.
The state continued to be on the boil with six more people, including a cop, getting killed in violence on Sunday, raising the death toll to 23, even as curfew-like restrictions were in place and mobile internet services remained suspended.
The Amarnath Yatra has begun today to the unrest in the valley in which over 200 people, many of them police and security personnel, have been injured.
The Jammu and Kashmir Cabinet, headed by Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, met and expressed anguish over the situation and the death of civilians in clashes with security forces following the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani.
The government promised to investigate if there was any instance of disproportionate use of force by security forces even as it appealed to the people not to become tools in the machinations of instigators of violence.
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