Protesters wound through the streets in the town of Baramulla, carrying Faizan Burhoo, a teenager whose body was recovered from a river on Monday. Locals said he drowned after being chased by police during weekend rallies.

Officers shot into the crowd after some members of the procession tried to set fire to the house of the policeman accused in the boy's death, said one police, who spoke on condition of anonymity, as he was not authorized to speak with media.

One man was killed instantly in the gunfire, he said.

Three of the wounded were rushed to a hospital in Srinagar, the main city in Indian Kashmir, in critical condition.

The mostly Muslim region, where resistance to rule by predominantly Hindu India is strong, has been under a rolling curfew for the past three weeks after anti-India street protests and clashes left at least 17 people dead.

The tension in the region — divided between India and Pakistan and claimed by both — is reminiscent of the late 1980s, when protests against New Delhi's rule sparked an armed conflict that has killed more than 68,000 people, mostly civilians.

Separatist politicians and militants reject Indian sovereignty over the Himalayan region and want to carve out a separate homeland or merge with Pakistan.

As the news of Monday's shooting spread in the already tense town of Baramulla, thousands of other residents took to streets chanting slogans against Indian rule, some throwing rocks in clashes with government forces. Violence also erupted in some places in Srinagar and Pampore, a town to its south.

Though there was no government-imposed curfew across the region on Monday, most shops, schools and government offices remained closed and public transport stayed off the roads in response to a strike called by separatists.