Srinagar, August 03: Amid spiralling violence, shoot- at-sight orders were today issued by police in curfew-bound Srinagar as three more persons were killed in firing by security forces on violent protesters who defied restrictions and clashed with them in the Kashmir Valley.
The shoot-at-sight orders were announced through public address systems fitted in police vans in areas of Dal Gate, Residency Road and All India Radio Crossing in the city, police said.
Protesters defied curfew restrictions in Srinagar, Budgam, Bandipora, Awantipora, Kulgam and Baramulla and indulged in heavy stone pelting on security personnel. They attacked public and police properties at a number of places, a police spokesman said.
“Security forces had to open fire for self defence and for dispersal of mobs at few places, in which three persons have lost their lives and a number of police and CRPF men got injured,” he said.
–Agencies