Jammu, Jul 1 (DNS) Pitched battles broke out between protesters and police who opened fire to quell violence in which 15 people were injured as the BJP-Shiv Sena sponsored shutdown in the city over the Amarnath Shrine land row entered the second day today.
Demonstrators also blocked traffic and burnt tyres demanding removal of Governor N N Vohra over his decision to hand over affairs of the Amarnath Shrine Board to the Jammu and Kashmir government.
Effigies of Vohra, Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and PDP patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed were torched at many places in the city, official sources said.
Staging a massive protest at Muthi on the outskirts of the city, Kashmiri migrants clashed with police who swung batons and burst teargas shells to quell violence in which 12 people were injured.
When this proved ineffective, police fired 3O to 40 rounds in the air in an attempt to disperse them, the sources said.
Later, an SPO fired at the protesters critically wounding two youths, they said.
Enraged over this, the mob took the SPO and another policeman, a trainee recruit, as hostages, thrashed them and threw their weapons into a river.The two were rescued by the army and were hospitalised.
A child was injured when some persons stoned vehicles carrying Amarnath pilgrims at Banihal, some 187 kms from here.DNS
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