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Four more persons among the injured died in various hospitals in Srinagar and Anantnag, hospital and police sources said. He has achieved what he was craving for.A mob torched a police station in Achabal area of Anantnag.U. Three youth wearing bandannas and carrying AK-47 assault rifles were also seen, reports said. (Photo: H..In Srinagar, clashes erupted between irate crowds of youth and security forces who fired teargas canisters into stone-throwing mobs at places, witnesses said.Reports from various parts of the Valley said a youth was killed in firing at Kolpora, Koimoh, in southern Kulgam district.R. Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah wrote on micro-blogging site Twitter."Train services between Baramulla in northwest Kashmir and Banihal town across the Pirpanjal mountain ridge in Jammu division were also suspended.
Sahai and IG (Kashmir range) Javed Mujtaba Gillani told reporters that the police and other security forces were faced with a very tough situation and that they only retaliated to a series of mob attacks on police stations, garrisons, homes of politicians and key infrastructure.In Srinagar, strict restrictions under Section 144 of the Ranbir Penal Code are being enforced in areas under the police stations of Nowhatta, Khanyar, Rainawari, M.Security force officials had said on Friday Wani’s killing was a "spectacular" win over separatist militants that would demoralise the rebels. Earlier, many people took to social networking sites to mourn Wani’s death. A report from Tral, Wani’s hometown, said thousands of mourners carried his body through the streets before the funeral.More than 60 injured people have been admitted to various Srinagar hospitals, mainly SMHS Hospital, doctors said. The Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education (JKBOSE), Kashmir University and Central University, Kashmir postponed all examinations scheduled for Saturday. Two more youth are reported to have died elsewhere — one of them drowned in a river while being chased by security forces during a clash. Thousands of mourners turned up at Srinagar’s historic Jamia Masjid late Friday night to offer Nimaz-e-Jinaza Gaibana, or prayers in absentia, for Wani and his associates.
The deafening explosions of teargas canisters and stun grenades could be heard whereas mosque loudspeakers were blaring "Tresh ma lajji Burhano (Burhan, you may be feeling thirsty)", reminiscent of early 1990s.J&K additional director-general of police (CID) S.The deceased have been identified China Auto accessories Manufacturers Amir Bashir Khan, Saqib Manzoor Mir, Aijaz Ahmed Thakur, Muhammed Asif Dar, Showkat Ahmed Mir, Muhammad Safeer Bhat, Bilal Ahmed Shah, Jehangir Ahmed, Danish Ayub Shah, Khursheed Ahmed, Aijaz Hussein and Haseeb Ahmed Ganai, all from the Valley’s southern districts which have witnessed the worst street clashes and stone-pelting since Friday night, police sources said. Kashmir’s disaffected got a new icon y’day.com, "Aftr many yrs I hear slogans for ‘Azadi’ resonate from the mosque in my uptown Srinagar locality. Another person, identified by locals as Aadil Bashir, was shot dead by security force personnel in Dooru area of neighbouring Anantnag district. Many replaced their profile pictures with that of Wani on Facebook and Twitter.Reports pouring into Srinagar, the state’s summer capital, said deployments and camps of the J&K police, CRPF and other security forces, and an office of the ruling BJP were attacked by mobs in different areas. He soon rose to become its district commander and figured in the list of most wanted militants. Till Saturday evening, 118,747 pilgrims had visited the cave-shrine, officials said.Elsewhere, irate crowds indulged in heavy stone-pelting on the police and CRPF when they came in their way.M. Most separatist leaders were earlier placed under house arrest or detained at police stations to prevent them from joining the planned mourning rallies.Key separatist leaders, including Mirwaiz Muhammad Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik, were placed under house arrest or detained at police stations to prevent them from going to Tral to attend Wani’s funeral or joining the "prayers in absentia" in Srinagar and elsewhere in the Valley on Saturday.Wani’s father Muzaffar Ahmed Wani is a school principal who, before switching off his mobile phone on Friday night, had told a reporter: "He (Burhan) has gone to God. Clashes were underway at Sheeri, Kreeri, Delina, Pattan and Palhalan in Baramulla district and several areas of Pulwama and Srinagar districts when reports last came in. The protesters had attacked the police and a CRPF camp in the area overnight, reports said.The Amarnath Yatra was suspended and no pilgrim was allowed to move from winter capital Jammu towards the Valley on Saturday to relocate to the Amarnath cave-shrine, tucked away at an altitude of 12,729 feet in the Pahalgam hills. Major parts of Srinagar and several other towns in the Kashmir Valley were placed under curfew or locked down earlier on Saturday to hold back mourning rallies following the killing of Wani. Naqash)At least 12 people were killed and well over 100 injured as several areas in the Kashmir Valley erupted on Saturday, a day after Burhan Muzaffar Wani, the poster boy of J&K militancy, and two of his associates were killed by security forces in a gun battle in southern Anantnag district.’ In another tweet, he said, "Mark my words — Burhan’s ability to recruit in to militancy from the grave will far outstrip anything he could have done on social media.J&K policeman kicks a woman shielding a youth who had tried to stop them from taking away the corpse of a slain man."Meanwhile, thousands of mourners turned up at the funeral of Wani in his hometown of Tral, 42 km south of Srinagar.Attempts were also made to snatch the service weapons of security forces at various places, they claimed and added that 96 security personnel had been injured in the incidents. As many 12,500 personnel from the CRPF and other Central forces and another 8,000 men from the J&K police, besides columns of the Army, are providing security cover to the 48-day annual pilgrimage which commenced on July 2. "They used the same weapons against our men by taking 20 of them hostage," Mr Sahai said, adding, "Three of them were injured and three are still missing. Identified as Zubair Ahmed Khanday, the youth had sustained multiple bullet injuries in the thoracic region, doctors at a local hospital said. Wani carried a cash reward of `1 million on his head." He had also appealed to people not to damage public property while venting their anger. The remaining deaths were also reported from the districts of Anantnag, Kulgam and Shopian in the Valley’s south.Senior police officials, while confirming the killing of eight protesters on Saturday, told media at a press conference in Srinagar that one of the youth had drowned in south Kashmir.Ninety-six security personnel were also injured in the day-long clashes and the fate of three J&K policemen who reportedly went missing after a mob attacked a police station at Damhal Hanjipora, in Kulgam district, is not known. Those who returned to the base camps of Baltal and Nunwun (Pahalgam) after paying obeisance at Amarnath on Saturday are likely to be escorted out of the Valley during the night, police sources said.Wani, 22, and two of his aides, Sartaj Ahmed Sheikh and Masoom Ahmed Shah, were killed in a fierce two-and-a-half-hour encounter with security forces in Kokernag area of southern Anantnag district on Friday. Amid heightening tensions and anger, the authorities deployed thousands of policemen in riot gear overnight to enforce a security lockdown in parts of Srinagar, Pulwama, Anantnag, Kulgam, Sopore, Shopian and some other towns, whereas security was beefed up further elsewhere in the Valley.The authorities also suspended Internet services on mobile phones and via dongles "as a precautionary measure". Firing on violent mobs was reported also from Silgam, Seer, also in Anantnag, leaving at least three persons wounded, one of them critically, reports said. A police picket guarding a cluster of houses of Kashmiri Pandits at Vessu, near Qazigund, the gateway to the Valley from the south, was also attacked by a mob but there were no casualties, police sources said. A complete shutdown was observed elsewhere to mourn Wani’s killing. The BJP office in Kulgam and several police posts and deployments also came under attack in various parts of Kulgam and Anantnag districts and in the northern district of Bandipore, and at Warpora in Sopore township of Baramulla district. Gunj, Safakadal, Maisuma and Kralkhud.com to pay tribute to the slain militant commander.The officers said the "most serious attack" was on the police station in Damhal Hanjipora (Kulgam) where a mob torched the building and looted the weapons. Wani, the Internet-savvy poster boy of Kashmiri militancy, was a resident of Dadsara village of south Kashmir’s Tral area (Pulwama district) who left home in 2012 — days before he was to appear in the Class 10 examination — to join the region’s frontline indigenous militant outfit Hizb-ul-Mujahideen.
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