Srinagar, Sept. 13: At least 14 protesters, including a woman, were killed and scores wounded in incidents of firing by the security forces while a policeman was lynched by an angry crowd in the Kashmir Valley on Monday.
Angry mobs also torched a Christian missionary school, government buildings and offices and vehicles and a railway hut besides targeting security camps and patrols with rocks and other missiles.
The director-general of police, Mr Kuldeep Khoda, said 113 policemen were injured in rock-throwing and other incidents of mob violence and that the condition of 41 of them was serious. One policeman was beaten to death by a mob at Humhama here, Mr Khoda said.
The body of the fifteenth victim was found in the Jhelum river in Anantnag.
Earlier, three protesters, including a woman named Rafiqa, were killed in security force firing at Humhama after a procession of mainly Shia Muslims from neighbouring Budgam turned violent.
The Kashmir Valley has been in the grip of unrest since June this year after the killing of a Srinagar student, Tufail Ahmed Mattoo, in police action. Already over 70 people have died in police firing and beatings during weeks of protests.