SRINAGAR: A youth was killed and several other civilians injured in clashes that broke out between security forces and residents of Gusoo village in south Kashmir ’s Pulwama district on Monday.Police said the clashes started after security personnel launched an anti-terror operation in over a dozen villages based on intelligence inputs about the presence of terrorists in the district. Soon after the area was cordoned, the youths started pelting stones on the forces to aid the terrorists. The youth was killed in retaliatory firing.Police said Fayaz Ahmad Wani, a resident of Chewa-Kalan village sustained bullet injuries in the head. He was rushed to Pulwama district hospital and later shifted to Srinagar ’s SMHS hospital for specialised treatment, where he was declared dead on arrival. Pulwama SSP confirmed the death, adding that an FIR was lodged into the killing and investigations started.The security forces later lifted the cordon of the villages after they could not zero in on the terrorists. Meanwhile, terrorists fired at a People’s Democratic Party worker in the district. Official sources said PDP worker Mehraj Ahmad Parra was attacked when he was coming out of sports stadium.