2 youths killed in Kashmir shootings

From Mukhtar Ahmad
CNN

SRINAGAR, Indian-controlled Kashmir (CNN) - Indian paramilitary forces gunned down two youths in Kashmir on Saturday, one of them a high school student apparently taking part in an anti-India demonstration, authorities said.

Protesters pelted stones at escort vehicles of Mir Mushtaq, a congressional party candidate, as he passed through Baramulla, a town in Indian-controlled Kashmir, about 55 km (34 miles) from Srinagar, a senior police officer told CNN.

Police opened fire on the protesters, killing 10th-grader Manzoor Ahmad Kumar, the officer said. Kumar's body was carried by hundreds of protesters into Baramulla's "Old Town" area, where clashes broke out between demonstrators and officers enforcing a strict curfew. Six protesters were injured in the fighting, police said. A police official said a second youth, Tanvir Ahmad Sheikh, was fatally shot by paramilitary forces in the Old Town area. No other details were immediately available on the second shooting.