Srinagar: As per reports, armed forces opened fire in the city center Lal Chow to disperse the crowd that were pelting stone and shouting slogans. Sources say that police detained three persons in connection with the stone pelting incidents in the city.
Earlier, Army had appealed the Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to deploy local police and paramilitary forces in several sensitive localities, where stone pelters and separatist elements were hampering relief operations.
Army said that people want help but separatists and miscreants were obstructing the relief work. Following the incident of stone pelting in some areas, the Air Force and NDRF had to scale down relief operations.
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