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| Jammu on edge; Hiranagar, Poonch tense | | Police station torched, shops ransacked in Jammu | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Aug 22
Overall situation continued to remain tense across Jammu district and adjoining areas as protestors indulged in large-scale arson and violence attacking Police stations and torching vehicles.
Despite repeated appeals by the Shri Amarnath Yatra Sangharsh Samiti to hold peaceful demonstrations, the mobs at several places ransacked shops and government establishments. Curfew was clamped in Hiranagar township and incidents of sporadic violence have also been reported from Kathua and Poonch districts.
Processions and rallies with large number of people holding placards and raising slogans continued across Jammu City for the day. Except ransacking of two shops no major incident of violence has reported from the town.
Reports gathered from across the region suggested that fresh spate of violence erupted in Jammu region today with angry protesters attacking two police stations in Poonch and Kathua. The army, meanwhile, staged a flag march here on Friday.
Curfew was clamped in the border town of Hiranagar in Kathua district after protesters turned violent following arrest of a youth and torched a truck parked in the police station complex.
Six people were injured as police fired tear gas shells and cane charged the protesters who forcibly released the youth from the police station.
"After fresh violence curfew was imposed in Hiranagar this afternoon. The clashes between police and protesters are going on," Kathua Deputy Commissioner Mandeep Kour said. Army has been deployed and they have staged a flag march in the town to restore peace and normalcy, she said.
In Poonch, police fired in the air to disperse members of a community who surrounded a police station and pelted stones on it after offering Friday prayers.
They were protesting against registration of a case against some members of their community in connection with an attack on a chemist shop and assault on a person on Tuesday.
Police resorted to cane charge and teargas shelling and later fired afew rounds in air to disperse the mob, officials said.
Authorities continued night curfew in Jammu and Udhampur districts as a precautionary measure in the wake of the Amarnath land stir while it was relaxed for varying periods in Samba and Kishtwar towns.
Rallies were taken out in Gangyal, Bishnah, Bakshinagar, Shaktinagar, Canal Road, Miran Sahib, R S Pura, Samba, Kathua Trikutanagar, Satwari and Udhampur areas as the agitation by the Sri Amarnath Yatra Sangharsh Samiti continued for the 54th day today. |
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