Many of the clashes started as protests against alleged police heavy-handedness and custodial killings. He was shot dead by Indian soldiers just a few hours earlier when they opened fire on protesters. They kill, every day they kill dozens of people for reasons best known to the government of India. Anybody can be killed. The anger turned to mourning as final prayers were said.
Many people here have little faith in the current ceasefire.
They say the Line of Control may be less violent but killings in the valley have not decreased. Parvez Imroz is a lawyer in Srinagar documenting human rights abuses. He says this unilateral ceasefire has made no difference. People are jokingly saying here sometimes that the ceasefire should be withdrawn so the human rights violations should get minimised here. So on the ground, the violence has escalated.