Lost foreign tourists mobbed in Kashmir as locals suspect them of braid-chopping

The situation was beginning to turn unruly when police and few other locals and calmed the mob down. Six foreign tourists who had lost their way and were mistaken as braid choppers by locals in the interiors of Kashmir’s summer capital Srinagar were rescued by police owing to the intervention of some good Samaritans, police said on Sunday. The six tourists – three Australians and one from South Korea, Ireland and England – were travelling from Leh to Srinagar in a vehicle and lost their way near the old city…

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