Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir Monday said security forces opened fire on hundreds of angry residents protesting mid-winter power cuts, killing one person and wounding two other people.

The shooting took place outside the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation in the Boniyar area of the Baramulla district near the Line of Control — a de facto border that divides Pakistani- and Indian-controlled Kashmir.

The Himalayan region suffers frequent power cuts despite bitterly cold winter temperatures.

Kashmir is claimed in full by both India and Pakistan. Since 1989, Muslim separatists have been fighting for Kashmir's independence from Hindu-majority India or for a merger with Muslim-majority Pakistan. At least 50,000 people have died in the violence.

The nuclear-armed neighbors have fought two wars over the Himalayan region since gaining independence from Britain in 1947.