Empty classrooms as some schools re-open in Indian Kashmir

killed two civilians and seriously injured a child, a day after New Delhi said Pakistani fire killed an Indian soldier.of Muslim-majority Kashmir, where a 30-year-old uprising against Indian rule has killed tens of thousands of people, mostly civilians.

At least 4,000 people have also been detained under the Public Safety Act , which allows imprisonment for up to two years without charge or trial, government sources said. Officials said only that the"few preventive detentions" were made to avoid a"breach of the peace", and that there was"no centralised figure" for the total number.On Sunday family members held a wake for timber trader Sidiq Khan, 62, who relatives said had died after suffocating from tear gas fired by security forces in Srinagar.

Around 20 per cent of landlines were working on Monday, an AFP reporter said. But mobile phones and the internet were still cut off.In Srinagar on Monday most main streets and markets were deserted, although some roads looked busier than in recent days. School buses are seen parked in the campus of a closed school in Srinagar on Aug 19, 2019. Some Kashmir schools re-opened on August 19 but many pupils stayed away, following weekend clashes after India stripped the region of its autonomy and imposed a lockdown two weeks ago.

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