Violent demonstrations erupted despite an appeal for restraint from influential separatist politician Syed Ali Geelani.
"Demonstrations should be peaceful," Geelani said on Wednesday. "Wherever you are stopped, sit down and tell them 'now you can fire at us', but don't indulge in violence."
Police officials said security forces late Wednesday opened fire killing two people in Srinagar, the summer capital of Muslim-majority Indian Kashmir.
The shootings sparked further protests in Srinagar in defiance of curfew orders. Police said protesters attacked police and paramilitary posts.
The Kashmir Valley has been rocked by violent protests against rule from New Delhi since the death in early June of a teenage student who was killed by a police tear-gas shell.
Some 47 people have been killed, most of them shot dead by security forces.
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