Srinagar: One person has been killed while two others injured at Naidkhai in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district late Friday evening.
Reports reaching GNS said that scores of youth took to streets after Friday prayers and started pelting stones upon the personals of 8th Battalion of Indian Reserve Police (IRP).
In retaliation, the forces resorted to teargas shelling to disperse the protesters, reports added.
Later in the evening, the situation took an ugly turn when police force opened fire at Naidkhai Bazar resulting injuries to three persons.
The injured were rushed to Pattan hospital where a youth identified as Farhat Ahmad Dar (18) son of Ghulam Rasool Dar of ShahGund Sumbal succumbed to his injuries.
As the news about the killing of a local youth spread in the Naidkhai area, hundreds of people including men, women and children took to streets and staged massive anti-India protests. (GNS)