20 injured in Kashmir

Published October 18, 2008

SRINAGAR, Oct 17: Twenty people were injured on Friday when police fired teargas and used batons to disperse hundreds of protesters in occupied Kashmir, police said.

Police prevented them from marching to the city centre by firing teargas and charging at them with batons.

The Jammu-Kashmir Coordination Committee had called upon the residents to hold “peaceful protests”.

The police action sparked clashes as protesters retreated into narrow lanes and pelted police with stones and bricks. So far 20 people were injured, police officer Pervez Ahmed said.—Agencies

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