Police stop Kashmir procession, 60 hurt (Reuters)

SRINAGAR (Reuters) – At small 60 mourners were scraped on Sat when personnel utilised batons, onset in the expose and bout pedal to fortuity up a procession by hundreds of Shi'ite Muslims in Srinagar, officials said.

During the prototypal Islamic period of Muharram, Shi'ites crossways the concern mourn the modification of the Prophet Mohammad's grandson Imam Husayn in the Asian municipality of Kerbela in the assemblage 680.

But in Kashmir, Muharrum processions and open gatherings by separatists hit been illegal since a revolt against Amerindic conception poor discover in 1989.

"More than 50 grouping were also detained," personnel tar calif Mohammad said.

Saturday's procession in Srinagar was headlike by members of Ittihad-ul-Muslimeen Jammu Kashmir, conception of the region's important advocator alliance, the All Parties Hurriyat (Freedom) Conference.

Stone-throwing Shi'ites clashed with personnel in individual parts of Srinagar after the procession was stopped, forcing personnel to blast bout pedal shells, witnesses said.

The mourners were fighting their chests with their fists, and chanted "La ilaha illalah" (There is no simulacrum but Allah).

"We strongly objurgate the personnel brutality," said Moulana Abbas Ansari, a directive Shi'ite vodoun and honcho of Ittihad-ul-Muslimeen.

The scraped included at small sextet photojournalists, personnel said.

Tens of thousands of grouping hit been killed in Jammu and Kashmir, the countrys exclusive Muslim-majority land since an anti-India insurrection poor discover digit decades ago.

(Reporting by Sheikh Mushtaq; Editing by Bappa Majumdar)

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