SRINAGAR, May 27, SPA -- THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ANGRILYPROTESTED IN A KASHMIR VILLAGE AND LOCKED UP A SOLDIERSATURDAY, ALLEGING HE HAD RAPED A YOUNG GIRL RETURNING HOME FROM SCHOOL, WITNESSES SAID. POLICE OFFICIALS WERE TRYING TO PERSUADE THE VILLAGERS TO RELEASE THE SOLDIER AND PROMISED AN INVESTIGATION AFTER THE ALLEGED ASSAULT IN SINGHPORA VILLAGE, 25 KILOMETERS (15 MILES) NORTH OF SRINAGAR, THE JAMMU-KASHMIR SUMMER CAPITAL, AN ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHER REPORTED. A RELATIVE AND NEIGHBOR OF THE 11-YEAR-OLD GIRL SAID SHE WAS RETURNING HOME WITH HER SIXTH GRADE CLASSMATES SATURDAY AFTERNOON WHEN SHE WAS ACCOSTED BY SOLDIERS AND RAPED BY ONE OF THEM. DOCTORS WERE EXAMINING THE GIRL IN SRINAGAR. --SPA www.spa.gov.sa/364267