IANS/Srinagar

A Spanish tourist was among five people injured yesterday in the Kashmir Valley as sporadic protests erupted against the hanging of parliament attack convict Afzal Guru.
Despite a valley-wide curfew for the seventh straight day, protesters took to the streets in areas and clashed with security forces, both police and other sources said. Police said the situation was “by and large peaceful” yesterday.
However, there were incidents of stone pelting at Naid Khai, Azad Gunj Baramulla, Handwara, Ajas Bandipora, Muran Pulwama, Charar-i-Sharief and Qaimoh Kulgam, a police statement said.
Authorities said they exercised maximum restraint while dealing with mobs.
One man, Ghulam Nabi Dar of Bandipora district, was injured in his right leg and was hospitalised. It was not clear what precisely happened. Three policemen were hit by stones and injured at Handwara and Charar-i-Sharief.
The tourist from Madrid, Marcos Tovio, was also hit by a stone when he was going to the north Kashmir Gulmarg ski resort yesterday afternoon, police said. He was admitted to the Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences Soura in Srinagar.
Authorities imposed curfew in all major towns of the valley to foil protests over Afzal Guru’s February 9 execution in New Delhi’s Tihar Jail. His body was then buried in the jail complex.