A 22-year-old youth Wasim Ahmad Lone died when security forces opened fire to disperse a stone-pelting mob in Nadihal area on Sopore-Kupwara road in Baramulla district, police said. The incident occurred when a mob targeted a convoy of security forces by pelting stones as it was on its way from Sopore to Kupwara, a police official said. To disperse the mob, the security forces opened fire in which Lone was injured in the chest. Following the death, fresh protests broke out in Nadihal and adjoining areas, the police official said. Clashes between security forces and stone-pelting mobs were also reported from several other areas of the valley in which at least 30 people were injured.

Source: dna September 23, 2016 15:13 UTC