Mystery attacks chopping women’s hair raise panic in Kashmir

In this Sept 19, 2017 photo, Kashmiri separatists hold placards as they protest against increasing incidents of braid chopping in Srinagar, India. In more than 100 cases confounding police over the past month, women said they were attacked by masked men who sliced off their braids. The attacks, most reportedly occurring inside people’s homes, are so strange that police initially suggested women were suffering from “mass hysteria” and hallucinations, until the government-run Women’s Commission warned them against making dismissive comments. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)