0SRINAGAR, India: Security forces shot dead four people and wounded another 12 during a protest at a village in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Tuesday, according to witnesses and a security source. One resident said one protester was killed immediately after members of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) opened fire and another three died of their injuries. A further 12 protesters were taken taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. Authorities have imposed a curfew in large parts of Kashmir, India’s only Muslim majority state, since July 9 during an upsurge in violence sparked by the killing of a top militant commander called Burhan Wani in a gunfight with security forces. More than 60 civilians, mostly young men, have been killed in clashes between protesters and security forces, and thousands more injured in the region’s worst violence since 2010.

Source: Manila Times August 16, 2016 08:19 UTC