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JAMMU ON THE BOIL: Curfew was imposed in Kishtwar after two houses were torched.

    

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Srinagar/Jammu/New Delhi: The situation in Jammu and Kashmir is spiralling out of control after 13 people were killed and scores injured as crowds defied curfew and poured out on to the streets and clashed with troops.

Clashes took place on Tuesday after locals came out on the streets to protest against the death of Hurriyat leader Sheikh Abdul Aziz in police firing on Monday. The protestors were demanding the release of Hurriyat leaders from house arrest so that they could participate in the last rights of the deceased leader.

Three people were killed and at least seven were injured at Bandipura, as Army opened fire on protestors, who defied curfew. Incidents of firing were reported from the town of Nagabal.

In Lasjan, three people were killed when the armed guard of senior People's Democratic Party (PDP) leader Javaid Mustafa Mir fired in panic when the former minister was attacked by a mob. Initial reports from Sringar suggest that the firing in the Lasjan area was accidental. Seven policemen, including an IPS officer, were injured.

Earlier, one person was reportedly injured after the police opened fire on protestors as the army held a flag march in Baramullah. Meanwhile, a communal clash has broken out in Kishtwar, in Doda district. Two people have been killed and at least 50 have been injured in the clashes.

In Bandipora, three people were killed when the army fired at people defying curfew. CRPF troopers also fired at a mob in the Nagabal area of north Kashmir Ganderbal district killing one person on the spot.

One child was killed when the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force opened fire to disperse an unruly mob at Rainawari in the old Srinagar area. There was trouble in the Kralpora area just outside Srinagar as well where one person was killed.

Elsewhere, mobs torched some houses and destroyed vehicles in their rage against the economic blockade of the valley following the prolonged protests in Jammu.

Doctors in city hospitals said more than 70 people had been admitted with injuries.

District Collector Kishtwar, Sudarshan Kumar SAID, "From the morning, the mob is protesting against the Army firing in Baramullah on Monday. Those who have been injured have been rushed to a nearby hospital."

Meanwhile thousands of protesters reached the residence of the moderate Hurriyat Conference chief, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq - breaking the cordon imposed by the security forces who had been keeping him under house arrest - many others did the same to let Syed Ali Geelani, head of the hardline Hurriyat, out of his Hyderpora home.