Seven civilians, including two women, were injured – two of them critically – after government forces fired pellets to break up a demonstration in Bijbehara area of Anantnag district on Monday morning.
Witnesses said that government forces barged into several houses in Semthan village of Bijbehara, following which people took to streets as a mark of protest.
Forces fired pellets at the protesters, triggering massive clashes in which seven people sustained pellet injuries.
The injured were sent to SDH Bijbehara where from two critically injured persons were referred to Srinagar for advanced treatment, said an official.
He said that a woman who had suffered pellet injuries in both her eyes was among those referred to Srinagar.
#KashmirOnBoil, 7 Injured in Bijbehara clashes; Two critical
