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Bandipora erupts in protest post Friday prayer
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Friday, 21 March 2014
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Srinagar: Hundreds
of people held pro-freedom and anti-India protests at various places in north
Kashmir’s Bandipora district here after Fridaycongregational prayers.
Witnesses said soon after Friday prayers,
hundreds of people took to streets at Hajan and shouted pro-freedom slogans.
The people were also shouting slogans against government forces.
“Hundreds of people led by Muslim league leader Showkat
Ahmad Hakeem started March from Jamia Masjid,” one of the locals told GNS over
phone.
However, soon after protests, youth clashed with
government forces deployed in the area. The forces resorted to teargas shelling
which created panic in the area.
The clashed continued for about half-an-hour, witnesses
said, adding: most of the shops in the area were shut after clashes.
At Naidkhai – where a teenager, Farhat Ahmad Dar, was
shot dead by police during clashes – protests and stone-hurling clashes took
place after Friday prayers.
“Soon after Friday prayers,
hundreds of people held pro-freedom and anti-India protests. Many of the
protesters went to Shahgund – the native village of slan Farhat – to console
his family,” Mehraj-ud-Din, a local, told GNS.
However, the clashes broke-out between government forces
and youth which continued till evening till evening, witnesses said, adding no
one was reported injured.
Protests also broke out at Shahgund Sadarkote and Vijpara
areas of the district. The protesters were shouting pro-freedom slogans and
demanded stern punishment against Farhat’s killers. (GNS)
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