A strict curfew keeping residents of Indian-controlled Kashmir in their homes for a fifth day was eased for Friday prayers, the
police chief said.
The mostly Muslim region has been under an unprecedented security lockdown and near-total communications blackout to prevent unrest as India's Hindu nationalist-led government announced it was revoking Kashmir's special constitutional status and downgrading its statehood.
"People will be allowed to go to the area-specific mosques for the prayers in most parts of Srinagar city," the region's police chief, Dilbagh Singh, told The Associated Press on Friday.