Indian occupation troops fired tear gas and live rounds at scores of protesters hurling rocks and defying a curfew Sunday in Indian-held Kashmir, and at least six civilians were wounded, police said.
The police and paramilitary soldiers first fired tear gas at the angry protesters who were chanting anti-India slogans but later opened fire into the rock-throwing crowds, a police official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to reporters.
Two of the casualties were critically wounded, in the latest violence in two months of unrest in occupied Kashmir in which at least 62 people have died - mostly protesters hit by gunfire from security forces. The anger has not abated despite the deployment of thousands of occupation troops and an appeal for calm from India's prime minister.
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