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Despite Killings, Warnings, Intense Clashes Erupt at Tral Encounter Site

December 22

Intense Clashes have erupted between protesters and government forces erupted in Arigam of Arampora area in Tral of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district where a gunfight between militants and forces is underway.

A Local told The Kashmiriyat that hundreds of protesters including women assembled and pelted stones on forces who responded to intense tear smoke shelling.

Announcements are being made on loudspeakers in the mosques asking others to come out, a local told The Kashmiriyat.

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People in large numbers from adjacent areas shouting pro independence and pro Militancy slogans are trying marching towards the encounter site.

Meanwhile Train services have been suspended in the South Kashmir region.