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Kashmir residents say they are starving as first accounts of India's lock-down of region emerge
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Paramilitary soldiers stand guard near a barbed wire barriacde during curfew in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kasmir CREDIT: REX
Fears are growing of food shortages among Kashmir's poorest residents as the region enters the third day of an unprecedented lock-down.
In some of the first accounts to surface after India shocked the world by stripping the area of Kashmir's special status, witnesses have told The Telegraph of mounting desperation as food supplies and money has dried up.
India announced a strict curfew and communications blackout on Monday, with the movement goods and people in and out of the region also strictly controlled.
But panic buying last week, as rumours circulated of an imminent curfew, saw shelves stripped of food, ATM's emptied and prices rocket - leaving many of Kashmir's poorest without key supplies....
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...ay-starving-first-accounts-surface-lock-down/
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Paramilitary soldiers stand guard near a barbed wire barriacde during curfew in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kasmir CREDIT: REX
- Joe Wallen, in new delhi
Fears are growing of food shortages among Kashmir's poorest residents as the region enters the third day of an unprecedented lock-down.
In some of the first accounts to surface after India shocked the world by stripping the area of Kashmir's special status, witnesses have told The Telegraph of mounting desperation as food supplies and money has dried up.
India announced a strict curfew and communications blackout on Monday, with the movement goods and people in and out of the region also strictly controlled.
But panic buying last week, as rumours circulated of an imminent curfew, saw shelves stripped of food, ATM's emptied and prices rocket - leaving many of Kashmir's poorest without key supplies....
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...ay-starving-first-accounts-surface-lock-down/