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November 22nd, 2008
Posted: 09:03 AM ET
From Mukhtar Ahmad 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. |
 
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