SRINAGAR: Police fired rubber bullets, live ammunition and lobbed tear gas in Held Kashmir to disperse hundreds of angry demonstrators protesting the killing of a man by government forces and to oppose elections due in October, police said Monday.
Shops, banks and government offices were closed for the day, and public and private vehicles stayed off the roads across much of the region in response to a strike called by freedom fighters groups protesting Indian rule in the disputed region.
Protesters blamed government forces for fatally shooting Javed Ahmed Bhat, a 23-year-old bystander, on Saturday in Srinagar, the summer capital of India’s Jammu-Kashmir state.
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