Congress activists protest soldiers' killing

About 170 members of the Youth Congress were detained here Wednesday while marching towards the Pakistan High Commission to protest the killings of five Indian soldiers in Jammu and Kashmir, police said.

Around 200 members of the Youth Congress gathered near the Pakistan High Commission in Chanakyapuri in central Delhi around 1 p.m.

They climbed police barricades and raised anti-Pakistan slogans.

Police said water cannons were used to disperse the protestors and 175 of them were detained. They were later let off.

Meanwhile, around 40 members of Naya Daur Party handed over a memorandum to the high commission on the soldiers' killings, said police.