Srinagar, Mar 13: A man was killed here Wednesday when security forces opened fire on a stone-pelting mob that stopped the vehicle in which they were going to donate blood for one of their colleagues injured in a shootout earlier in the day with terrorists.
V.S. Yadav, inspector general of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) told IANS that a vehicle carrying CRPF personnel to donate blood for one of their colleagues critically injured in Wednesday's terrorist attack was caught in a stone-pelting mob.
Yadav said that the troopers opened fire in self-defence. Altaf Ahmad Wani, 30, sustained critical bullet injuries and succumbed while being taken to a hospital.
Locals in the area, however, refuted the CRPF version claiming that Wani had been killed in unprovoked firing by the security forces.
Seven people - including five CRPF soldiers and two terrorists - were killed in a fierce gunfight in Bemina area of Srinagar earlier Wednesday.
Nine others - including six CRPF personnel and three civilians - were injured in the gun battle in the playfield of a police public school. The school was closed because of the separatist-called shutdown in the city.
The three injured civilians are reportedly out of danger. One of the injured CRPF trooper is battling for life in the city's super specialty Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences Soura.
Tension gripped Srinagar in the wake of Wani's killing where educational institutions and markets were closed and public transport off the roads because of the separatist-called shutdown.
