Security bunkers have come up in city roads after nearly eight years and more paramilitary personnel are being deployed in Srinagar following the spate of civilian killings by militants in Kashmir.

Security bunkers manned by CAPF men are being set up in many areas of Srinagar.

Sources said constructing new bunkers and putting more personnel on the ground is being done to cut the free movement of militants.

“The militants have shown that they are moving from one area to another within no time after committing militancy incidents. It can only be checked by area domination and cutting the free movement,” they said.

Official sources said 50 companies of additional paramilitary forces are being inducted into the Valley to shore up the security apparatus, especially in Srinagar, in the wake of the civilian killings.

The new bunkers have come up at places where no such thing existed even at the peak of militancy in the valley in the 1990s.

Two such bunkers have come up on Barzulla bridge on the airport road in Srinagar.

Police have also suspended internet in parts of Srinagar and in a couple of areas in south Kashmir, and launched a drive against two-wheelers in the city.

Large number of two-wheelers has been seized by the police in last few days.

IGP, Kashmir zone, Vijay Kumar had said these steps were purely related to militancy violence.

“Seizing some bikes and shutting down of internet of some towers is purely related to militant violence. It has nothing to do with visit of the Home Minister Amit Shah,” Kumar said.

The internet services on a dozen towers — mostly in the areas where non-local labourers were killed in the last week — were snapped three days ago while police have started stringent checking of documents of two-wheelers plying on the roads.

At least 12 civilians — including five non-local labourers and three minority community members were killed by militants in this month so far.