KL NEWS NETWORK
SRINAGAR
As the CRPF and police deployment was leaving, the vehicles carrying them came under severe stone pelting attacks in Srinagar’s Nowshehra area.
Local reports said that forces came down from the vehicles and fired scores of tear gas shells which created panic and suffocation in the area.
“People were still in Masjid for Maghrib Namaz when tear gas shelling started,” a local said, “the tear gas smoke engulfed the whole area creating problems for children and elderly residents.”
Local reports suggest that such developments are a routine now. “Forces face stiff opposition every day they leave the area,” a resident said, “but tear gas canister shelling has created huge respiratory problems especially in elder population.”
Meanwhile, reports coming from uptown Rambagh, Alochibagh and nearby areas said that some “unknown-unruly persons” are enforcing “black out” in these areas.
“We are being forced to switch off the lights without any reason,” a resident of Alochibagh said, “the persons enforcing such a black out are unknown as they seem to be outsiders and not local residents.”
It may be noted that resistance leadership has not called for any “black out” in the current protest calendar.
