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Kashmir simmers, Jammu on boil
WAN Network
JAMMU: Over a dozen policemen were injured, a police post and
government buildings were set ablaze and a railway track was
uprooted as violence escalated in Jammu on Tuesday and 14 people
died in the violence along communal lines in Jammu and Kashmir since
May 26.
Mobs of Hindu protesters demanded restoration of
forest land in the Kashmir Valley to Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB)
and clashed with the police in Jorian, a border town in Jammu.
Firing by police to disperse angry demonstrators
provoked the mob into throwing stones at a police post.
As many as 29 persons including 13 cops were
injured in the violence, forcing authorities to call out the Army.
Violent protests continued on Tuesday in the
Jammu region, which has been simmering with anger amid series of
shutdowns and curfew for the last 36 days over the land transfer.
Police pickets were set ablaze at some places, a
railway track was uprooted near Ghagwal, the Jammu-Pathankot
National Highway was blocked by mobs, and the Jammu-Pathankot
railway track between Ghagwal and Samba was damaged, bringing train
services to a halt.
The land transfer and its subsequent revocation
has polarised Muslim and Hindus of the state.
The government first ordered diversion of the
land to the SASB on May 26. The order was later revoked July 1
following 10-day long violent protests in the Muslim-dominated
valley in June.
6 August, 2008
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