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At least three more people were killed in in battles between troops and protesters in the Occupied Kashmir. Indian police threatened to shoot anyone defying a round-the-clock curfew. Still, hundreds of anti-India protesters took to the streets of the region's main city of Srinagar and more than a dozen other places in the region. All Pakistani channels have also been banned in the valley.Earlier Indian paramilitary personnel killed at least 19 civilians and injured over 200 others when hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in several parts of the held valley, demanding of India to vacate the territory without any further delay in Indian occupied Kashmir. Those killed included three teenaged boys, a woman and district president of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front-R. The killings took place in Bandipore, Tangmarg, Cherare Sherief, Budgam,Pampore, Sopore and Islamabad. Another youth who was injured on September 6 in the firing of police personnel succumbed to injuries in a Srinagar hospital on September 12.With fresh killings the death toll of protesters in the ongoing uprising mounted to 96 since June 11. On the other hand, Indian troops during crackdown operations martyred three innocent civilians at Lashkoot in Bandipore.Meanwhile, an indefinite curfew was imposed in Poonch town while protest demonstrations were also held in Jammu, Doda, Ramban, Banihal, Batote, Kastigar and Mandi areas.
