Clashes erupted between hundreds of angry demonstrators with Indian forces on Wednesday in the city of Srinagar in the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir, after the killing of a civilian at a checkpoint, where the people questioned the police account.
Hundreds of residents took to the streets in the Muslim-majority region chanting "We want freedom" and "Go to India," referring to Indian soldiers.
Masked demonstrators also threw rocks, Indian forces responded by firing tear gas to disperse them, and mobile phone services in the area were cut as clashes escalated.
A doctor at the city's main hospital, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that at least two young women were wounded in the eyes. Indian authorities are preventing doctors from speaking to the media.
This comes after the news of the killing of the civilian young Mahruddin Bir Shah, 25, as he drove his car, was fired by Indian paramilitary forces near a checkpoint on the outskirts of Srinagar city.
Police said that Shah ignored the stop signs at two checkpoints "in suspicious circumstances" before the forces opened fire on the car, confirming that he had been taken to hospital but died of his wounds.
Indian media also reported that a speeding car had fired on a security post in the Bodgam area, and that the security forces had responded to the sources of fire, which resulted in the injury of a civilian in the incident.
On the other hand, the young man's father rejected this account and said that his son was shot in cold blood, confirming that his son was not rushed while driving the car, and that the security forces forced him to stop and then shot him.
"If the soldiers had shot his car while he was fleeing from any checkpoint, his car would have been shot," he told reporters in Srinagar.
Witnesses confirmed to the French Press Agency that the young man got out of his car to answer the soldiers ’questions at the checkpoint before he was shot while returning to the car.
And last week, Indian forces killed the leader of the largest armed group fighting for independence in the disputed region with Pakistan, coming months after New Delhi abolished Kashmir autonomy and imposed a curfew to quell the unrest.
India-controlled Kashmir has seen resistance operations since 1989 led by groups against what it regards as Indian occupation, and India and Pakistan have fought two wars over the region from three wars between them since the division of the Indian subcontinent in 1947.