SRINAGAR: After months of calm that had raised hopes of normalcy, Kashmir appears to be getting swept into a spiral of violence again, forcing the authorities to call out the Army across the entire Srinagar city.

“The Army will now take over the entire patrolling responsibility in the city from the CRPF and police,” J&K director-general of police Kuldeep Khoda told TOI. The decision was taken after three more protesters, including a 25-year-old woman, were killed in CRPF firing on Tuesday, bringing the death toll in such incidents to 14 since June 11.

Authorities reimposed curfew in most parts of the Valley, which has been simmering since tempers flared after the killing of a 17-year-old in police action last month.

The latest protests broke out after residents of Srinagar’s Batmaloo area alleged that a teenager, Fayaz Ahmad, was killed after CRPF fired at a group of people protesting the drowning of another youth, Muzaffar Ahmad Bhat. The body of the 17-year-old was recovered from a rivulet on Monday night and residents alleged that security forces had thrashed him and thrown him in. CRPF denied firing at the mourners and maintained that Bhat had accidentally fallen into the rivulet.

14 killed in CRPF firing since June 11

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