Srinagar : At least five people were injured on Friday when security forces allegedly opened fire on an angry mob protesting the deaths of four civilians in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district, police said.
A police officer told IANS that the protestors were demonstrating outside an army camp in Natnusa village of border district Kupwara when soldiers opened fire to stop them from marching in.
Bullets hit five protestors and one of the injured later died in a hospital, the officer said.
The demonstrators were protesting against deaths of four civilians in firing and tear gas shelling by security forces since Tuesday.
Strict restrictions were imposed across the valley amid protests and shut-down call by separatist groups against the civilian killings, triggering fresh unrest in Kashmir.