Srinagar: The Kashmir valley continues to remain tense after four people were killed and several others were injured in a BSF firing in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir. The Amarnath Yatra has been suspended temporarily, while the state government has now orderd a magisterial probe. Traffic on the Srinagar-Jammu highway has also been suspended.
The BSF troops had allegedly opened fire indiscriminately, killing four and wounding 25 others, after massive protests broke out in Maisuma and Chenab region in the state on Thursday. A curfew is likely to be imposed in major towns after the protests.
Just three weeks after furore over Army's alleged killing of two youths in Bandipore, a similar incident had taken place in Ramban. While the Omar Abdullah government was struggling to deal with the protests, an apparently peeved Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde had ordered a probe.
But the probe did little to soothe the frayed nerves of the people. From Chenab valley to Kashmir, protests had been spreading. The separatists had too joined the fray and had called for a three-day strike. Meanwhile, the government has suspended mobile internet services and was likely to impose restrictions.
Locals had claimed that protests began when a BSF personnel had allegedly thrashed a local Imam and desecrated the holy Quran inside a religious place. But the BSF had been in denial, saying it had fired in self defence when protesters were planning to storm the camp.
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