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Mobile internet blocked in Kashmir amid protests over Handwara deaths

| | Apr 14, 2016, at 06:16 pm
Srinagar, Apr 14 (IBNS) As anger and grief over the death of a young cricketer and three others in firing by security forces in Handwara and Kupwara still run high in Kashmir, mobile internet services have been suspended to check the spread of rumours, reports said.
Mobile Internet services like WhatsApp were not available in Srinagar, Kupwara, Baramulla, Bandipora and Ganderbal districts of the Valleyon Thursday morning.
 
Four persons have been killed in clashes between protesters and security forces in north Kashmir's Kupwara district since Tuesday.

The protests erupted after locals alleged that a soldier had tried to molest a school girl in Handwara town, which the army refuted by releasing a video in which the girl does not mention about any soldier, but says a boy grabbed her bag and abused her when she went to the washroom of the school.
 
The police say security forces opened fire when some 500 protesters surrounded the main army post, started throwing stones and tried to burn it.
 
Nayeem Butt, a promising cricketer, 70-year-old Raja Begum and Mohammad Iqbal, 21, were killed in the firing.

Another man died in Kupwara after being hit on the head by a tear gas shell.

A curfew was imposed in Srinagar, Handwara and neighboring villages to check the escalation of violence.
 
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