Police lob teargas shells to quell protestors in Srinagar

Srinagar, June 30: Police today fired teargas shells to disperse stone-pelting mobs at a few places in Srinagar even as more violence-hit areas were brought under curfew in South Kashmir, where three youths have been killed in alleged CRPF firing.

Protestors, including women, took to the streets at Natipora and Batmaloo areas here and staged demonstrations against the killings that have rocked the valley for the past few days, police said.

Police and paramilitary forces, which have been deployed in strength to maintain law and order, lobbed teargas shells to disperse the demonstrators at Natipora and Batmaloo in central Srinagar.

Police said there were no reports of any casualty in the clashes during which protestors indulged in pelting stones at security personnel.

Curfew was clamped in Bijbehara, Mattan, Dooru, Kokernag, Achhabal, Pahalgam in Anantnag district and Kulgam district this morning.
–PTI