Sapore: Tension prevailed in Sopore town of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday with people protesting the death of two youths in a firing incident indulging in stone-pelting and enforcing a complete shutdown, even as the army ordered a court of inquiry into the shooting.
The curfew promulgated in the town on Sunday after massive protests was lifted on Monday morning to enable people to buy essentials, official sources said. However, the locals took to streets and enforced closure of markets.
The protestors are demanding punishment for security personnel who allegedly opened fire near a bus stand in the town on Saturday. Two youths -- Mohammad Amin Tantray and Javid Ahmad -- were killed in the incident and another named Firdous Ahmad was seriously injured.
The sources said people today took out processions and pelted stones on the law-enforcing personnel when they tried to stop them.
The army ordered a court of inquiry into the incident. It said militants hiding among people opened fire on the security personnel on that day, killing one civilian. The army also retaliated and two other civilians were hit by bullets
during cross-fire, one of whom died later.
The deceased were buried in their ancestral graveyards on Sunday with thousands attending the funeral processions.
The situation in the town was tense and authorities were reviewing it, the sources said.
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