Indian Police Kill Another in Kashmiri, During Funeral of Murdered Ten-Year-Old Boy

Press TV, Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:56:31 GMT

One person has been killed and 14 others have been injured after police in Indian-administered Kashmir opened fire on participants in a funeral procession.

On Saturday, a man was killed in Anantnag, a town in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir as fresh clashes between Indian paramilitary forces and angry protesters erupted.

Those shot were accompanying the body of a ten-year-old boy, Maroof Ahmad Nath, who had drowned after the police chased him into the Jheluma river, the Indian Express reported.

Residents chanted slogans as numbers in the crowd began pelting the security personnel with stones.

Security forces say they had to resort force to disperse stone-throwing protesters in the central Budgam district, a Press TV correspondent reported.

Kashmir residents defied the curfew in Srinagar and other major towns, pelting security forces with stones.

Kashmiris say the curfew, which has been in place for six consecutive days, has prevented them from getting food and other necessities.

Top separatist leader, Seyyed Ali Geelani, has called on people to block Indian army camps with sit-in protests.

"I have urged people to stage peaceful sit-in protests in front of army and security force camps in Kashmir," Geelani told reporters in Srinagar on Thursday.

Since early June, violent street protests and crackdowns have left nearly 100 people dead.

New Delhi has been repeatedly criticized for resorting to force rather than finding a diplomatic solution to the issue.

Pakistan has accused India of "brutality" and condemned its deadly crackdown on protestors.

"Pakistan strongly condemns the brutality and the blatant use of force by Indian security forces," said Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi.

Both Islamabad and New Delhi claim the region in full, but rule over parts of it and have fought two wars over Kashmir.

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