The Kashmir Valley experienced another day of mayhem on Monday with at least seven protesters gunned down by police and paramilitary personnel struggling to contain protests and mob violence which have spread to new areas.

The Kashmir Valley continues to simmer and the body count keeps rising: four more persons, including a teenaged girl, were killed in fresh incidents of police firing to quell protests on Sunday, while

Violence in the Valley continued on Sunday as four people were killed in a fresh round of police firings. The doctors said they were also treating ten persons with gunshot wounds.

As the Kashmir Valley witnessed public fury and mob attacks on police stations and camps, especially that of the counterinsurgency Special Operations Group (SOG), besides a railway station and some government buildings for the second straight day on Saturday, two more protesters were killed in police firing incidents, raising the toll to six.

Witnesses said that soon after the bodies of the two persons killed in Friday’s CRPF firing near Amargarh railway station arrived in Sopore late on Friday night, irate crowds again relocated to the railway station and torched a residential quarter. On Saturday morning, the protests swelled with thousands more joining them; they set ablaze the railway station and other property, including the personal belongings of Railway Protection Force personnel who had already fled.

In Pattan town, along the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road, 13-year-old Rafiq Ahmed Butt was killed and scores others injured in clashes between policemen and violent crowds. Witnesses said an unruly mob barged into the local police station and torched one of the buildings as well as some stationary police vehicles.
Nine policemen had a close shave in this incident.

Chopping off a Sikh resident’s hair allegedly by a group of Muslim youth which objected to his looking for vegetables at a local market during a separatist-sponsored shutdown in Jammu and Kashmir’s southern Pulwama district set off widespread protests by the members of state’s minority community on Thursday.

The weather gods have come in the way of Amarnath yatra leaving several thousands of devotees stranded at two base camps — Baltal and Pahalgam — and other halting places.

At a time when reports emanating from New Delhi suggest that the Centre is contemplating to extend fresh invitation to various political groups in Jammu and Kashmir, including both factions of Hurriyat Conference alliance for talks, a group of people associated with Track II diplomacy is camping in Srinagar reportedly to gauge the mood of the leadership especially separatists.

At least, one person was killed and two others wounded when the police opened fire to quell a mob in Baramulla, 58-km northwest of Srinagar, on Monday evening.
Reports said that the historic town erupted again after the body of a 13-year-old boy was fished out of Jhelum by Navy personnel. Farhan Rafiq Burhoo had drowned in t