Police in Indian-occupied Kashmir fired tear gas on Tuesday as thousands of students protested for a second day over the alleged rape of a three-year-old child. On Monday more than 70 people were injured, at least 50 of them from the security forces, as demonstrations raged across the restive northern territory.
On Tuesday students mostly protested at a university campus in the main city of occupied Srinagar, but hundreds of female students assembled near the city centre demanding quick justice. Police fired tear smoke shells to confine the students to a college, an officer said. No one was injured. School students also protested across many other towns in the region.
Authorities imposed restrictions on the assembly of people to prevent protests from spreading by deploying thousands of police and paramilitary troops across the territory.