Tension prevailed in Sopore town of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday with the people protesting the death of two youths in a firing incident indulging in stone-pelting and enforcing a complete shutdown, even as the army ordered a court of inquiry into the shooting.
The curfew promulgated in the town on Sunday, after massive protests, was lifted on Monday morning to enable people to buy essentials, official sources said.
However, the locals took to the streets and enforced closure of markets. The protestors are demanding punishment for security personnel who allegedly opened fire near a bus stand in the town on Saturday.
Image: Kashmiri villagers pray next to the body of Mohammed Amin in Bumai, 60km north of Srinagar, on February 22, 2009.
Text: PTI
Photographs: Danish Ismail/Reuters
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