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Police fire on Kashmiri demonstrators
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At least six people were injured, two of them critically, when security forces fired at demonstrators protesting against the alleged rape and murder of two young women at Sofanaman in south Kashmir’s Shopian district on Monday.
The protesters in the Muslim dominated state allege that the two women were gang-raped and subsequently killed by Indian troops last Friday.
The bodies of the two women were recovered the next morning near a canal in the troubled region.
The protests followed the release of a police forensic report Sunday that indicated the girl and woman had been raped. But it stopped short of giving a cause of death.
The rally with up to 15,000 people tried to reach Shopian -- 37 miles south of Srinagar -- where the bodies had been found, despite a police lockdown.
As demonstrators neared the town, police opened fire when the crowd refused an order to stop.
The demonstrations across the valley have so far claimed one life and left more than 300 injured.
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