(7 Jul 2007)
1. Wide shot of protesters running towards police, throwing stones
2. Indian security forces in protective gear, group of protesters facing them down the street
3. Various of protesters pelting stones, running forward
4. Wide shot street, protesters, policeman throwing stone
5. Various of police standing, running
6. Protesters in distance, police in foreground, one shoots tear gas
7. Close up police shooting tear gas, canister smoking on road
8. Protester runs towards policeman who hits him with baton, protester dodges out of the way
9. Wide shot police running towards protesters, protesters run away, tear gas canisters smoking on road
STORYLINE:
Anger erupted on Saturday in the main city in Indian-controlled Kashmir after a teenage boy was killed on Friday when police fired on a crowd who were protesting at alleged human rights abuses, officials said.
Protests and street demonstrations erupted in several places in downtown Srinagar, the summer capital of India's
Jammu-Kashmir state, with thousands of angry men marching through the streets.
Four policemen were injured as they used bamboo batons to control hundreds of rock throwing protesters in several places in downtown Srinagar, said a top police officer in Srinagar.
Protesters chanted anti-India and pro-independence slogans, and traders kept their shutters down in the old parts of the city.
On Friday, clashes had broken out as crowds left prayers at the Jamia mosque in Srinagar, chanting anti-Indian slogans on the streets and throwing rocks at the security forces.
The demonstrators were protesting at alleged human rights violations by security forces.
Police opened fire, wounding two people, said a witness to the fight.
One of the victims, a 16-year-old boy, later died, said Dr. Abid Hussain of Sher-E-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, who tried to treat him.
Kashmir is split between Pakistan and India, but claimed by both in entirety.
The two sides have fought three wars, including two over Kashmir, since independence from Britain in 1947.
Separatist political groups and nearly a dozen rebel groups reject Indian rule over Kashmir and want to carve
out an independent homeland or merge with Muslim-majority Pakistan.
More than 68,000 people, most of them civilians, have died in the separatist conflict since 1989.
Kashmiris resent the presence of the army of predominantly Hindu India and government forces are often accused of torturing and killing people they suspect are tied to the militants.
Authorities routinely investigate such allegations, but prosecutions are rare.
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