Around two people have been killed after protests in Karnataka over the publication of a translated version of Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen’s article in a Kannada daily turned violent Monday, police said.

Curfew has been clamped in Shimoga city, about 280 km from Bangalore, and prohibitory orders imposed in Hassan district, around 200 km from Bangalore, police said.

“One person died in police firing and the other of injuries from assault,” M.B. Pravin, additional superintendent of police at Shimoga told IANS.

The Kannada version of the article was published Sunday. Groups of people went round Shimoga forcing shops to close, pelted stones, set fire to many two-wheelers and several four-wheelers, police said.

After a baton charge failed to check the mobs, an order prohibiting the assembly of five people or more was announced but that too failed to end violence, a police spokesperson said.

“Curfew was clamped on Shimoga city after 4 p.m. and the situation was under control,”he said.

Protests in Hassan also turned violent with protestors pelting stones and attempting to set fire to a few commercial establishments, police said.