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Day 6- Kulgam Area Continues to Shut Demanding the Removal of Army Camp

October 02

The Quimoh belt of South Kashmir’s Kulgam district has shut down for the sixth consecutive day as locals continue to demand the removal of recently established Army camp in Redwani area of the District.

Locals told The Kashmiriyat that the locals are protesting on the sixth consecutive day against the establishment of Army camp on last Sunday as business establishments and educational institutes continued to remain shut in the area.

Scores of women and men have gathered in the area shouting pro Independence slogans to demand the removal of the Army camp for the sixth consecutive day, Locals said.

Bilal Ahmed, a resident of Redwani told The Kashmiriyat that “The area is growing in fear, the camp has been established besides a shcool, the school has been locked down for the last nine days now.”

The Army on last Sunday set up a camp in the volatile Quimoh locality of South Kashmir’s Kulgam District.

Locals informed The Kashmiriyat. They said that 1 Rashtriya Rifles of the Indian Army has set up a new camp besides the Martyrs graveyard in the Redwani Bala locality of Quimoh in South Kashmir’s Kulgam District. Redwani Bala pertinently is a densely populated area of the Kulgam District.