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Secretariat Employees Attacked Several Times Since Morning in Jammu

February 16

Secretariat employees in Jammu have been attacked three times since morning despite curfew in Janipur area of Jammu.

A Secretariat employee told The Kashmiriyat over phone that violent mob attacked their quarters in Jammu’s janipur area three times since morning.

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They said that these mobs shouting anti kashmir and pro India slogans threw stones on the quarters of kashmir employees residing in Janipur.

He said that they have failed to understand that how despite curfew the mobs have come and attacked them three times since morning.

They demanded the intervention of Governor and police officials to provide them security as they are feeling threatened in the area.

A curfew has been imposed in Jammu areas to thwart any kind of violence.

The series of protests against Kashmiris in Jammu began earlier this week, when a mob allegedly asked Kashmiri youth to sing the Indian National song, ‘Vande Mataram.’  The protest took a new twist, When a Fidayeen militant rammed a car into CRPF convoy, killing at least fourty of its men.

Earlier on Friday morning, Dozens of Kashmiri vehicles were burnt down by protesters in Gujjar Nagar area of Jammu. Raising anti Kashmir and anti Pakistan Slogans, hundreds of Jammu people poured onto the streets of Jammu on Friday Morning.