Troops arrest pro-separatists

SRINAGAR, Indian-controlled Kashmir (CNN) - Indian authorities in Kashmir arrested more than a dozen pro-separatist leaders and placed the Himalayan region in an around-the-clock curfew to scuttle a planned pro-independence rally Monday.

Still, stone-pelting mobs took the streets, clashing with police and security forces. Four people were killed, including one woman, and 45 others were wounded, a senior police officer said.

Separatist groups had planned Monday's sit-in at Lal Chowk, or Red Square, to oppose Indian rule in the Muslim-majority region. Over the last two weeks, protesters have held several such demonstrations calling for independence.

Security forces shut down all roads leading into the city and put up corrugated tin sheets and barbed wires to barricade Lal Chowk.