Pulwama Impact: Student protests escalate to Sopore, Shopian, Pattan, Ganderbal, KU

Srinagar | Monday | 17th April, 2017

Summary:

While Srinagar police is battling students in SP College, reports about similar protests came from Shopian, Sopore, Pattan, Gaderbal and now from Kashmir University.

They are pushing us to the wall.”In Ganderbal and Pattan, reports said the students were protesting within the college premises only.

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Protests against the Pulwama raids by police have escalated to other towns outside Srinagar.

While Srinagar police is battling students in SP College, reports about similar protests came from Shopian, Sopore, Pattan, Gaderbal and now from Kashmir University.

Barring a few places places, police have used force almost everywhere.

While protesting against the Pulwama raids by police, more than 1000 students of Degree College Sopore and State run Higher Secondary School assembled in the college premises.

They later moved out of the college as well.

As the police sealed the college exits, the students started demonstrating within the premises.

Since the college is just a wall away from the police headquarters, they started pelting stones on it.

It triggered clashes between the two sides.