SEPARATIST demonstrators clashed with government forces in Jammu & Kashmir state today over the 2013 execution of rebel Mohammed Afzal Guru, leaving one male civilian dead and another critically wounded.

Government forces fired on the stone-throwing crowd in Palhalam village, north of the main city of Srinagar.

Hundreds of police and paramilitary soldiers were patrolling the region during a strike called by separatists to mark the anniversary of the execution.