SRINAGAR, India (AFP) — Indian police clashed with stone-throwing protesters in the Kashmiri summer capital on Sunday, a day after a demonstrator died in similar anti-India rallies.
Police fired teargas and used batons as scores of young Kashmiris, angry at the death of the Muslim man, threw rocks at riot police in Srinagar, police and witnesses said.
"A few people were injured," police officer Pervez Ahmed said.
The 20-year-old man was killed Saturday when police fired rubber bullets and teargas at hundreds of demonstrators in Srinagar.
In the past few months, the Muslim-majority Kashmir valley has experienced the biggest separatist rallies since the revolt against New Delhi's rule erupted in 1989.
The recent wave of unrest was triggered by a state government plan to donate land to a Hindu shrine trust in the valley. The decision was later reversed after massive Muslim protests, angering Hindus.
Last Sunday, the government agreed to temporarily provide land to the trust during the period of Hindu pilgrimage, a move rejected by separatists.
Since the initial government plan was made public in June, at least 40 Muslims and three Hindus have died in police shootings in the Kashmir valley and the mainly Hindu area of Jammu, further to the south, as authorities struggled to quell the protests.
Police fired teargas and used batons as scores of young Kashmiris, angry at the death of the Muslim man, threw rocks at riot police in Srinagar, police and witnesses said.
"A few people were injured," police officer Pervez Ahmed said.
The 20-year-old man was killed Saturday when police fired rubber bullets and teargas at hundreds of demonstrators in Srinagar.
In the past few months, the Muslim-majority Kashmir valley has experienced the biggest separatist rallies since the revolt against New Delhi's rule erupted in 1989.
The recent wave of unrest was triggered by a state government plan to donate land to a Hindu shrine trust in the valley. The decision was later reversed after massive Muslim protests, angering Hindus.
Last Sunday, the government agreed to temporarily provide land to the trust during the period of Hindu pilgrimage, a move rejected by separatists.
Since the initial government plan was made public in June, at least 40 Muslims and three Hindus have died in police shootings in the Kashmir valley and the mainly Hindu area of Jammu, further to the south, as authorities struggled to quell the protests.
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