SRINAGAR (Agencies) - Violent protests in Occupied Kashmir entered their fourth day Thursday as police struggled to contain thousands of protesters angered over the provision of land in the Muslim region to Hindu yatrees. Officials and witnesses said some 50 people were hurt in clashes as police used force at more than 20 places across the Kashmir valley in Occupied Kashmir. The protests, which began Monday, have left three Kashmiris dead in police firings, and nearly 200 others injured. The Kashmir valley has been transformed into a battleground littered with rocks and burned tyres. "The situation in the city is very tense," city police chief Syed Mujtaba told reporters, adding that reinforcements had been rushed to the worst-hit areas. Tensions worsened Wednesday night after police shot dead a third protester. Hundreds of youths were on the streets again Thursday, chanting slogans including, "We want freedom" and "Stop giving land to Indians." Police later fired in the air, lobbed tear-gas canisters and used batons to disperse the demonstration, AFP photographers said. Police also used force to quell stone-pelting groups across the city of one million, including along the main road to Srinagar's high-security airport, witnesses said. The protests were sparked by a local government decision last week to give land to the Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board, a Hindu trust, so it can build accommodation for tens of thousands of Hindu yatrees who make an annual pilgrimage to a mountain grotto. Meanwhile, scores of activists of fundamentalist Hindu parties held protests on Thursday in Jammu, warning the state government against revoking its order to transfer the land to the Hindu trust, witnesses said. They also forced a complete shutdown, including of schools and businesses, in some parts of Jammu, witnesses said. A key Kashmiri political group, PDP, said it would end its alliance with ruling Congress if the land transfer order was not revoked by June 30. Senior PDP leader Muzaffer Beigh suggested the Hindu trust give up its claim on the land "in order to defuse the situation."