Author: Staff Reporter
Publication: Freepressjournal.in
Date: July 12, 2017
URL:   http://www.freepressjournal.in/indore/indore-kashmiri-youths-attack-city-pilgrims-on-srinagar-highway/1101389

Kashmiri youths attacked four buses of pilgrims from city on Srinagar Highway, in J&K on Monday.  However, no pilgrim was injured in the incident as army jawans swung into action on time. However, the army vehicles were damaged in the attack.

 A jattha of 718 pilgrims had gone to Jammu and Kashmiri on July 7 to ake Amarnath yatra. Narendra Sharma, who led the jattha, said that the pilgrims had reached J&K in 18 buses and three tempo travellers.

“When we were returning from the pilgrimage, four of our buses were intercepted by around 150 Kashmiri youths aged between 15 and 25 years on Monday afternoon. They were shouting slogans and demanding removal of some army jawans posted on the highway,” Sharma told Free Press over phone from J&K.

“After police reached the scene, army jawans left the place and as soon as the jawans left , the protestors started pelting stones on us. Listening to the cries of passengers, Army jawans returned and fired shots in the air forcing the protestors to disperse,” Sharma said.

 Later, Army jawans escorted the buses to a safer place and allowed passengers to proceed on their own.

“Window panes of two buses were smashed and two other buses were damaged in stone pelting,” he said, adding ” All the pilgrims from Indore reached Katra safe and they would now leave for Haradwar. The jattha would return to the city on July 23 after completing “Char Dham Yatra”.

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