{"id":2327,"date":"2014-05-08T13:58:56","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T13:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir-today.net\/?p=2327"},"modified":"2014-05-08T13:58:56","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T13:58:56","slug":"shutdown-clashes-in-sopore-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=2327","title":{"rendered":"Shutdown, clashes in Sopore town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Srinagar:\u00a0<\/strong>A spontaneous shutdown was observed in north Kashmir\u2019s Sopore town amid violent clashes between youth and government forces\u00a0<span>on Thursday<\/span>\u00a0against violent incidents on poll day.<\/p>\n<p>Scores of youth were injured in volatile Sopore town\u00a0<span>on Wednesday<\/span>\u00a0evening soon after the polling concluded for Baramulla Lok Sabha Constituency. A youth had sustained critical injuries after forces opened fire to disperse the stone-throwing youth in the town.<\/p>\n<p>Since early morning, youth at several places in the town took to streets and held anti-India protests. Eyewitnesses told GNS that youth resorted to intense stone-pelting on police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personals.<\/p>\n<p>The forces, in return, chased away youth and resorted to intense tear smoke shelling which created tense situation in the town.<\/p>\n<p>The shops, schools, commercial establishments remained shut in the town with very less movement of transport. In the afternoon, there was curfew like situation in the town.<\/p>\n<p>However, no one was reported injured in the clashes. (GNS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar:\u00a0A spontaneous shutdown was observed in north Kashmir\u2019s Sopore town amid violent clashes between youth and government forces\u00a0on Thursday\u00a0against violent incidents on poll day. Scores of youth were injured in volatile Sopore town\u00a0on Wednesday\u00a0evening soon after the polling concluded for Baramulla Lok Sabha Constituency. A youth had sustained critical injuries after forces opened fire to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}