Srinagar, India (CNN) -- Spiraling violence claimed four more lives Tuesday in Indian-administered Kashmir, where anti-India mobs continued to defy the curfew restrictions in the capital of Srinagar and other towns.
Authorities, however, succeeded Tuesday in clearing and restoring traffic on the strategic Srinagar Jammu national highway -- which connects the landlocked Kashmir Valley with rest of the country --by deploying Indian army troops and paramilitary forces. The highway had been blocked for four days as protesters squatted on it, disrupting traffic.
The protesters in Kashmir are opposed to Indian rule and angry over recent alleged human rights violations in Muslim-majority Kashmir.
A police spokesman in Srinagar said mobs defied curfew restrictions and threw rocks in Srinagar and other major towns.
Indian police opened fire to quell the mobs, wounding four people, two of whom later died. A police spokesman said security forces were forced to fire as a last resort to control the protesters.
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