Indian government forces killed two freedom fighters who tried to snatch a guard's rifle in occupied Kashmir, police said, and protests against Indian rule and clashes erupted Friday as word of the killings spread. At least two freedom fighters were trapped overnight in a home on the outskirts of the region's main city of occupied Srinagar after they tried to take the rifle from an officer guarding a local leader of India's ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, police said. The officer was wounded.
Counterinsurgency police and soldiers cordoned off the neighbourhood and martyred two freedom fighters in the exchange of gunfire that followed, police said in a statement. The martyred freedom fighters were from neighbouring Pulwama district, where officials ordered schools and colleges closed on Friday in an attempt to stop student protests.
Protests and clashes occurred separately in another village north of occupied Srinagar after authorities sealed it on a tip that a couple of Kashmiris' were hiding there. Police said a brief gunbattle followed, but at least two freedom fighters escaped during the severe clashes between rock-throwing protesters and government forces using tear gas. No one was immediately reported injured.
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