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  • Archive for July, 1983

    Post-ballot riots hit Kashmiri capital

    SRINAGAR, June 16 (1983): Police slapped a curfew on parts of the Kashmiri capital of Srinagar yesterday and stepped up patrols after violent post-election clashes between Shia and Sunni Moslems. About 200 people attacked police with rocks near Srinagar's Jama Masjid mosque after they were stopped from marching to the city's Zadibal district, a Shia stronghold, the Press Trust of India news agency reported. The police, wielding batons and using tear gas, dispersed the crowd. About 40 people, including...

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