1 dead, 20 injured in Kashmir protest

An anti-India demonstration in Indian-administered Kashmir has left one person dead and 20 others injured in Srinagar.

Srinagar Police Chief Javed Reyaz Bedar has described the death of a bus passenger as murder by the protesters. "A murder case has been registered. We will find the killers," he told reporters after the Friday incident.

Police said that the 42-year-old man was hit in the head as he was traveling through Srinagar, the Kashmiri summer capital. He later died in a hospital.

Fifteen protesters and five policemen were injured in angry demonstrations as protesters pelted stones at security forces.

Later in the day, police fired teargas and charged hundreds of protesters who tried to march to the high-security office of the United Nations to protest against human rights abuses by Indian security forces.

"The elements involved in this killing can never be well-wishers of Kashmir's freedom struggle," said moderate separatist leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq. "The act is highly condemnable," he added.

Source: PressTV.
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