Kashmir on the brink again?

12.30.12pm UTC (GMT +0000) Tue 12th Aug 2008

A map of Kashmir

Kashmir seems to be on the brink again. Today Indian security forces fired into a crowd that had gathered for the funeral of Sheik Abdul Aziz a prominent Kashmiri separatist leader who was shot dead yesterday, killing three people.

A curfew in Srinagar and other towns has been widely ignored and at least seven people were killed and many injured when security forces opened fire on stone-throwing.

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