One person has been killed and at least five others wounded after police opened fire on hundreds of students seeking a college to be set up in their town in Indian Kashmir, police said.
Two policemen were among others hurt in baton charges and stone pelting at the protest on Saturday in Magam township, 30 km west of Srinagar.
"Police had to use force, including firing, after students set fire to a vehicle and attacked policemen," a police officer said under anonymity.
Zahoor Ahmed, 20, died in hospital from injuries sustained at the demonstration, Ashiq Bukhari, another police officer, said.
The protest came a day after Kashmir's government said it would set up 18 new colleges across the state. A college was not allocated for Magam.
Violence erupted after demonstrators blocked the main highway connecting Srinagar with the rest of the country, said Bukhari.
Shops and businesses in the township closed in protest and hundreds of students demonstrated on the streets shouting anti-government slogans.
India's only Muslim-majority state is in the grip of an 18-year-old revolt against New Delhi's rule that has left more than 68,000 people dead.