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Curfew imposed, army out in Rajouri

Mukhtar Ahmad in Srinagar

Indefinite curfew has been imposed and the army has been deployed in the border town of Rajouri in Jammu region late Tuesday night, Jammu Range police chief R V Raju told rediff.com over the telephone.

Tension gripped the town and adjoining villages after a person died and 15 others were seriously injured in indiscriminate firing allegedly by soldiers at Fatehpora village, near Rajouri.

Villagers were protesting against damage to their maize crop. The locals alleged that the security forces forced them to cut the crop following an earlier gun-battle.

Hundreds of villagers came out on the streets in protest. They blocked the highway, when the jawans allegedly opened fire.

Raju said the injured have been admitted to hospital.

"We will airlift the seriously wounded to Jammu on Wednesday morning," he said. The situation, Raju admitted, was tense.

The authorities later deployed troops and imposed curfew.

Militants late on Tuesday evening attacked a security forces' building at Barramullah in north Kashmir with hand grenades. Troops guarding the building opened fire in retaliation.

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