SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Dozens were injured in the remote Indian region of Ladakh on Wednesday as hundreds of people demanding federal statehood from the Indian government clashed with law enforcement, officials and residents said.

Some protesters threw stones at officers as police tried to stop them from marching in the high-altitude Leh town. Others set ablaze a paramilitary vehicle and the local office of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, police said.

Police fired tear gas and swung batons at the demonstrators, injuring dozens of them, police said. Some among the injured were in critical condition, residents said.

Nestled between India, Pakistan and China, Ladakh was split from Indian-controlled Kashmir after New Delhi removed the disputed region’s statehood and semiautonomy in 2

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