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21 August 20197.57 Tensions in Indian Kashmir are not appeased, after New Delhi's decision to lift the special status of the disputed region with Pakistan. A militiaman and a police officer were killed in a fire fight in the northern district of Baramulla. Since August 5, the date of the autonomy of the Himalayan region, the Indian authorities have arrested 2,300 people. They are mainly young people who participated in the protests in Srinagar, the main city of the Indian portion of Kashmir.