Fresh unrest rocks Indian Kashmir as death toll hits 102

Police fired on fresh anti-India demonstrations in Kashmir on Saturday, killing three protesters and bringing the number of civilian deaths in an unprecedented wave of unrest to 102. The new deaths came as thousands of Kashmiris poured on to the streets shouting "Go back India" and "We want freedom" as New Delhi grappled to find ways to end the escalating pro-independence demonstrations. Women and children joined young men staging protests, defying curfews imposed across the mainly Muslim region to contain the spiralling unrest. Police said two men died when security forces fired on stone-throwing protesters blocking a highway north of Srinagar, the main city of Kashmir, where an armed revolt has been under way against Indian rule since 1989. Another young man was killed by police who fired on stone-throwing demonstrators in southern Anantag town, police said.