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Indian troops fired at hundreds of Muslims protesting against elections in Kashmir on Saturday, killing two people including a teenage boy and wounding 20, police and witnesses said.
The violence in north Kashmir's Baramulla town comes a day before the second phase of seven-stage elections that are seen as a test of legitimacy of New Delhi's rule in the disputed region.
Government forces killed at least 50 people during those protests.
Earlier on Friday, 18 people were wounded when police attacked on Muslims demonstrators who protest against ongoing election.
"Security forces fired indiscriminately, killing 16-year-old Manzoor Kumar on spot," Haroon Ahmad, a witness, told Reuters by telephone.
"Down with elections! We want freedom!", the protesters shouted while carrying away Kumar's body.
The vote is the third election in the state since an insurgency began in 1989 and which has killed at least 47,000 people since then.
Most Muslim leaders remain in jail or under house arrest. They have renewed an appeal for a boycott of the elections and urged the people to hold protests against the vote.
Police said more troops were deployed in Baramulla town, 54 km (34 miles) north of Srinagar, Kashmir's summer capital, to quell protests triggered by Saturday's deaths in police firing.
Indian authorities were encouraged by a decent turnout in the first round of the state elections in a region beset by massive anti-India protests earlier this year.
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Kashmiri protesters throw pieces of bricks towards Indian policemen during an anti-poll protest in Srinagar November 21, 2008.
Reuters
