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Srinagar: Thousands of people attended protests and demonstrations in parts of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday (March 1) against the killing of Iranian Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in an attack by Israel and the US.

J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah also expressed “deep concern” over the killing of Khamenei while Kashmir’s chief cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has called for a shutdown on Monday against the “ongoing aggression against Iran”.

Witnesses said that the historic Lal Chowk in the summer capital Srinagar was flooded by demonstrators since Sunday morning after the news of Khamenei’s killing in an airstrike last night was confirmed by the Iranian state media.

Protests in J&K over killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a US-Israel strike. Photo: Jehangir Ali

A pall of gloom descended on the city centre as teary-eyed demonstrators including women and children, most of them Shia Muslims, gathered near the clock tower and shouted slogans in favour of Khamenei and against US and Israel.

Invoking the battle of Karbala, the demonstrators waved life-sized posters of Khamenei, former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, the national flags of Iran and Palestine and some religious flags while shouting slogans against America and........

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