By Bilal Furqani, Agence India Press
Srinagar: At least ten persons sustained bullet injuries when a joint party of police and CRPF troopers opened fire on demonstrators at Soura on city outskirts here on Thursday.
The three members of a family were injured critically when security forces opened fire to disperse demonstrators demanding the withdrawal of the CRPF troops from the premises of a Jenab shrine in Srinagar.
Habib-ullah Tiploo, his daughter, Sumeera, and daughter-in-law, Fatima, received bullet wounds when security forces opened fire to disperse the protestors outside the shrine in old city this afternoon, the police said.
The injured have been admitted at the SK Institute of Medical Sciences in Srinagar.
Sources from SKIMS said that Sumeera was undergoing an operation, and that all the family members were “in a stable condition.”
Reports reaches to Agence India Press that scores of people, including children and women, took to the streets this afternoon and tried staging a peaceful pro-freedom demonstration. However, police and paramilitary CRPF men resorted to teargas shelling and opened fire to disperse them. In the police action at least ten persons, including three members of the same family were wounded.
While talking to CRPF spokesman Prabhakar Tripathy told Agence India Press that his camp in Soura was attacked by 1,000 angry protesters, and that the troops had to resort to aerial firing. “Last night, the same camp was pelted with stones well past midnight,” he added.
“Today at around 1200 hrs a huge mob pelted stones on the bunker of security forces in Jenab Sahib Soura. The mob attacked from all the sides to dismantle it forcibly on their own,” he added.
However, Police and the forces used tear smoke and cane charge to disburse the mob