SrinagarTraffic on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway was disrupted for over three hours following massive protests after a Border Security Force (BSF) vehicle hit and killed a youth in south Kashmir on Tuesday afternoon.
The BSF driver has been arrested and a vehicle seized, a senior police officer said.
Hundreds of people hit the streets at Vessu on the highway when a BSF vehicle hit and critically wounded a youth this afternoon. The youth later died in the hospital.
The demonstrators blocked the highway at 1245 hrs with the results hundreds of vehicles got stranded on both sides.
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