SRINAGAR: Two youths have been critically wounded after the police fired at a demonstration in Watergaam village outside the northern town of Sopore on Sunday.
Police say another three protesters have been wounded, but are out of danger.
The police said in the evening that one of the two critically injured had succumbed on the operation table in the Institute of Medical Sciences Srinagar. However the doctors later said both were still struggling for life.
Hundreds of people took to the streets in the village to protest the hanging of Afzal Guru.
The police and paramilitaries fired live bullets. Obaid Mushtaq has received an abdominal injury while Sajad Ahmed has been hit in the head.
In another incident, a young man drowned during clashes between protesters and the police and paramilitaries in Sumbal area near the capital Srinagar.
Police have identified the deceased as Tariq Ahmed Bhat.
There are conflicting reports about the incident, one saying that the deceased along with another boy fell into the river while being chased by the police and paramilitaries.
The other report says that the deceased was travelling in a boat which capsized during clashes between the protesters and the paramilitaries.
However a statement issued by the zonal police headquarters in the evening said it was an incident of boat capsizing, adding that six people were travelling by the boat, one of whom died.
It suggests without saying so that the accident had nothing to do with the clashes between the protesters and the police.
