Srinagar under curfew, 12 September 2010.
Reuters/Danish Ismail At least 20 people were injured in Indian Kashmir on Sunday, when security forces fired on protesters as they defied a curfew imposed on the region in response to demonstrations against New Delhi's authority.
Five people were wounded when police fired live ammunition and tear gas shells on a crowd throwing stones at the home of Kashmir's education minister, Peerzada Mohammad Syed, in southern Kashmir.
Another 15 people at least, including eight policemen, were injured in other parts of Kashmir.
In the north, protesters set fire to a school building and threw petrol bombs at a security patrol vehicle, while clashes broke out in two residential districts of the summer capital, Srinagar.
The Indian government deployed thousands of security forces and imposed an indefinite curfew on Srinagar and other large towns on Sunday, a day after separatists set fire to public buildings in protests against New Delhi's rule. Kashmir has recently seen its biggest separatist demonstrations in two years, after police provoked public anger by killing a 17-year-old student in June. Seventy people have died in the protests, most of them in police fire.
According to a poll published on Sunday in the Hindustan Times, two-thirds of residents in the Kashmir Valley want independence for the entire state from both India and Pakistan.
Another 15 people at least, including eight policemen, were injured in other parts of Kashmir.
In the north, protesters set fire to a school building and threw petrol bombs at a security patrol vehicle, while clashes broke out in two residential districts of the summer capital, Srinagar.
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According to a poll published on Sunday in the Hindustan Times, two-thirds of residents in the Kashmir Valley want independence for the entire state from both India and Pakistan.
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