Kashmir tense as two killed in protests over shrine land

By SPA,

Srinagar, Kashmir : Army troops marched through the streets in India’s northern Jammu and Kashmir state on Saturday after violent protests over land for a Hindu pilgrimage site claimed two lives and wounded 21 people, officials said.


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The army was deployed in the southern Jammu district after Hindu protestors attacked government offices and torched a police station on Friday. Two protestors were killed in police shooting and 8 injured as the protests spread to Samba town, police was quoted as saying by DPA.

“13 more people were injured in overnight clashes with the army and police. Hundreds are out on the streets in defiance of the curfew,” a police official said

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