Firing At Stone-Throwing Mob Near Budgam Encounter Site Kills 3 Civilians

Three youth on Tuesday lost their lives in police firing at a crowd that was throwing stones on security forces in the middle of a gunfight with terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Budgam district. Police later killed one terrorist in the encounter. This is the second time in less than three weeks that civilians targeted security forces at an encounter site, the police said, worried that protests at encounter sites were becoming a pattern.