By IANS
Srinagar : A civilian was killed and two people including a solider were wounded when people in a Kashmir town clashed with two soldiers Thursday.
People of Kangan town, 38 km north of here, said they had caught the two soldiers red handed when they were trying to molest a girl, though police denied their version.
The Kangan residents said the soldiers fired at them when they tried to intervene and save the girl. The firing killed one civilian and wounded another, while one of the soldiers was also injured in the melee, they said.
Police, however, said it seemed there was some understanding between the girl and the two soldiers.
"We have taken the girl in custody. We have booked a case and investigations are on," said a police official.
In another incident Thursday, two children were killed in a blast in Kupwara district of north Kashmir when they fiddled with a live shell lying in a field. While one child died on the spot, the other succumbed to injuries in the hospital, police said.