Police fired tear gas and swung batons in an attempt to clear protesters from the streets of Indian Kashmir on Monday, the eighth day of rioting against what critics call a government plan to build Hindu settlements in the Muslim-majority region.
But the thousands of police and paramilitary soldiers patrolling the streets in cities across most of Jammu-Kashmir state had little success in damping the protests, with businesses, shops and schools remaining closed.
Prabhakar Tripathi, a spokesman for the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force, said hundreds of protesters took to the streets across Srinagar, the state's main city, and clashed with police and …
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