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Police Kill A Protester And Wound 5 In KashmirSRINAGAR, Kashmir (AP) — The police on Saturday fired on protesters who were demanding a college in their town in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir; one person was killed and five others were wounded, the police said. Chanting antigovernment slogans, demonstrators set fire to a government bus and a police vehicle and threw rocks at police officers and paramilitary soldiers who tried to disperse them, said Ashiq Bukhari, a police officer. The police opened fire, killing a 20-year-old and wounding five others, he said. Four policemen were injured after being kicked and beaten with wooden sticks by protesters, who blocked the main highway connecting Srinagar, the summer capital of India’s Jammu-Kashmir State, to the rest of the country, a police officer said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak with reporters. The protesters also snatched four rifles from the police, the officer said. The demonstrators, numbering in the thousands, were protesting a government decision on Friday to reject their demand to set up a new college in Magam, a town 15 miles north of Srinagar. Clashes between government forces and residents are common in the Indian portion of Kashmir. Nearly a dozen rebel groups have been fighting for Kashmir’s independence from India or its merger with neighboring Pakistan since 1989. More than 68,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in the conflict. The Himalayan territory is divided between India and Pakistan, but both nations lay claim to the entire area. India and Pakistan have fought two wars over the control of Kashmir since independence from Britain in 1947. Tag CloudExternal InformationAdditional InformationU.S. Nuclear Envoy Puts Gentle Pressure on North Korea...Pakistan Questions 2 in Daniel Pearl Killing... Chandra Shekhar Dies at 80; Led India... Defending Nuclear Pact, India Premier Faces Criticism... Where Am I?News Main Page - Business - Police Kill A Protester And Wound 5 In Kashmir |
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