Srinagar, Nov 26: Majority of the shops and business establishments in Downtown here were shut on the second consecutive day on Friday while mobile internet remained suspended in many parts of the city following the killing of three militants at Rambagh, officials said.
The shutdown was observed mainly in interior areas such as Nowhatta, Gojwara, Khanyar, Safakadal, Nawakadal, Rajouri Kadal and MR Gunj, they said. Traffic, however, was plying as usual, the officials said.
Police on Wednesday gunned down Mehran Shalla, a self-styled commander of The Resistance Front (TRF) and a resident of Jamalata area in Nawakadal, and Manzoor Ahmad Mir and Arafat Sheikh, both from Pulwama, in a brief encounter in Rambagh area of the city.