<p>An indefinite curfew was imposed in Sopore town in Kashmir Tuesday following the death of a youth in security force firing Monday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Heavy deployments of police and paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) blocked road crossings, using coils of concertina wires, in the town to enforce the curfew.<br /><br />Shops, public transport, businesses and educational institutions remained closed. The separatists have called for a protest shutdown in Srinagar.<br /><br />A youth identified as Arshad Ahmad Shah was killed Monday in firing by security force personnel when protestors attacked security forces at the site of a gunfight where a foreign guerrilla was killed and his local aide arrested.<br /><br />Four people also sustained gunshot injuries in this firing incident.<br /><br />In Srinagar city, markets, other businesses and educational institutions remained closed, though marginal public transport operated in the Civil Lines area.<br /><br />Government offices, banks and post offices, however, functioned normally in all other major towns of the Kashmir Valley.<br /><br />No untoward incident has been reported from anywhere in Kashmir so far although security forces are on high alert.</p>
<p>An indefinite curfew was imposed in Sopore town in Kashmir Tuesday following the death of a youth in security force firing Monday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Heavy deployments of police and paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) blocked road crossings, using coils of concertina wires, in the town to enforce the curfew.<br /><br />Shops, public transport, businesses and educational institutions remained closed. The separatists have called for a protest shutdown in Srinagar.<br /><br />A youth identified as Arshad Ahmad Shah was killed Monday in firing by security force personnel when protestors attacked security forces at the site of a gunfight where a foreign guerrilla was killed and his local aide arrested.<br /><br />Four people also sustained gunshot injuries in this firing incident.<br /><br />In Srinagar city, markets, other businesses and educational institutions remained closed, though marginal public transport operated in the Civil Lines area.<br /><br />Government offices, banks and post offices, however, functioned normally in all other major towns of the Kashmir Valley.<br /><br />No untoward incident has been reported from anywhere in Kashmir so far although security forces are on high alert.</p>