Clashes erupt after Eid prayers in Kashmir

Srinagar, August 22

The celebrations of Eid-Al-Adha was marred by violence in Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar when stone-pelters came out on the streets and waved flags of Pakistan and ISIS.

In a bid to disrupt peace, the demonstrators chanted slogans and clashed with police personnel on duty in Srinagar's Eidgah area, soon after Eid prayers. They also pelted security personnel, who were trying to disperse them, with stones.

Similar protests occurred in Anantnag, Sopore and Kupwara towns.

The police said a youth sustained a pellet injury in his right eye and was being treated at a hospital in Anantnag town.

In another incident, a policeman was shot dead by terrorists outside the Eidgah in Kulgam's Zazripora, when he was leaving after offering prayers.

Earlier in May, a tourist from Tamil Nadu's Chennai had lost his life in stone-pelting, a few days after the vehicle of a district judge from Bengaluru, who was on a holiday with his family, was pelted with stones. Around the same time, a bus carrying schoolchildren was also attacked by stone-pelters in Zawoora village of Shopian district. ANI