Several Kashmiri leaders, including APHC chairman Syed Ali Shah Gilani, Democratic Freedom Party chief Shabir Ahmad Shah and JKLF vice-chairman Javed Ahmad Mir, have been arrested at Safapora while they were on their way to Bandipora in Baramulla district to attend the funeral of five youths.
Five Kashmiri youths were earlier killed on Saturday night by occupation forces in Bandipora of Baramulla district in occupied Kashmir. Massive and violent protest demonstrations were held to condemn the killing of five innocent Kashmiris on Sunday.
Quoting official sources, news reports received here said, the leaders and their supporters were detained by police and lodged in Safapora police station as a precautionary measure while they were on way to Bandipora to offer Namaz-e-Janaza of the five youths.
The Kashmiri leaders taken into police custody included Mohammad Abdullah Tari, a close associate of Shabir Ahmad Shah, Gul Aijaz Khan, Bashir Ahmad Indrabi and Majid, added the sources.
Meanwhile, the situation in Bandipora continued to be tense in wake of widespread protests against the killings of the youth, said the report.
Bandipora was rocked by violent demonstrations by residents of Aragam, Chatibandi and Bandipora when the bodies of the youth were handed over by the occupation forces.
NINE KILLED: Nine people were killed in violence in occupied Kashmir on Monday.
Eight alleged freedom fighters were killed in four shootouts across occupied Kashmir, police said.
A police spokesman said a man, Mohammed Amin, was shot dead in the central town of Tral. The reasons for the killing were not immediately clear.