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Three boys injured as security forces fire on demonstrators in J&K
Srinagar, June 09: Three teenaged boys were today injured when security forces opened fire to disperse a group of people protesting alleged misbehaviour with women by Army personnel in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials sources said.
Srinagar, June 09: Three teenaged boys were today injured when security forces opened fire to disperse a group of people protesting alleged misbehaviour with women by Army personnel in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials sources said.
Rashtriya Rifles personnel fired at the demonstrators outside a security camp in Choudhary Gund village in Shopian area injuring Arif Ahmad Wagay (9), Mudasir Ahmad Rather (16) and Firdous Ahmad (17), they said. The three were admitted to a hospital here where there condition was described as stable.
The demonstrators were protesting against alleged misbehaviour by Army personnel with women travelling in a bus, which the security personnel had intercepted this morning at the village and searched the passengers for arms.
They alleged that the men in the bus were roughed up by the personnel.
Raising anti-security forces and pro-freedom slogans, residents of the area took to streets demanding an end to the highhandedness of the troops and pelted stones on policemen who arrived at the scene to disperse the demonstrators, the sources said.
While police used teargas and batons to disperse the demonstrators, the security personnel opened fire injuring the boys.
Bureau Report