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Youth killed in police firing in Kashmir

| | Feb 10, 2015, at 03:57 am
Srinagar, Feb 9 (IBNS) The security forces killed a youth in Palhallan area of north Kashmir on Monday evening, police said.
According to reports,the incident happened when a group of youth were protesting against the hanging of Parliament-attack convict Afzal Guru. 
 
Afzal guru was secretly hanged on Feb 9, 2013 at Tihar Jail in Delhi. He was later buried inside the jail premises. 
 
According to police sources, there was moderate stone pelting in the area during the day.
 
Sources further added that a group of youths attacked security forces in the evening with heavy bricks.
 
In the retaliation, security forces opened fire and as a result, a youth named Farooq Ahmad Bhat was killed.
 
Meanwhile, top police official said that an FIR has been registered and the incident is being investigated.
 
(Reporting by Saleem Iqbal Qadri)

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