Srinagar: Protests over Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein caused some disturbance in Kashmir on Friday. Police on Friday fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse hundreds of angry demonstrators burning the American flag during a second day of street protests in Kashmir over the execution of fallen Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
Shouting anti US slogans the crowds screamed ‘Down with Bush’, even as they burned effigies of US President outside mosques after Friday prayers. The angry mob pelted stones at the police injuring four police personnel deployed on the site.
Protests also were reported in two Srinagar districts before prayers and in the nearby village of Chaduar, said Farooq Ahmed, a deputy inspector-general of police.
There were no immediate reports of injuries, said Prabhakar Tripathy, a spokesman for paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force. The protesters damaged two paramilitary force vehicles.
Shops and businesses were shuttered Friday and attendance was thin in government offices, although state-run buses continued to operate in the Kashmir Valley, Ahmed said.
On Thursday, police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse nearly 300 protesters who hurled rocks at policemen and burned the American flag in Srinagar.
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