Srinagar: Police resorted to aerial firing in Batamaloo area of Srinagar on Friday to quell pro-freedom protests.

Eyewitnesses told Kashmir Narrator that a number of youth took to streets after Friday prayers and assembled in Bazar Batamaloo to carry out a protest procession.

However, police fired several rounds of live ammunition and tear-gas shells to disperse the youth, an eyewitness said.

Till last reports came, heavy stone-pelting was going on in Siddiq Abad area Batamaloo.