India deploys troops in Srinagar after Kashmir separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani dies
Authorities deployed troops and shut down the internet as a precautionary measure, police said
The death of a prominent anti-India political leader who had led the separatist movement in Kashmir has prompted a lockdown to be imposed on the Indian region as authorities removed and secretively buried his body under the cover of darkness.
Syed Ali Shah Geelani, 91, died on Wednesday evening at the home where he had remained incarcerated for the past decade. He had dementia and had been experiencing chest pain.