The police have opened fire on a group of Naga tribal people on the border between India's northeastern states of Manipur and Nagaland, said officials.
Police said 15 demonstrators were wounded, most in a panic.
A group on behalf of Naga said that at least two Naga had been killed in police firing.
The Naga are angry that the Manipur management has blocked Naga separatist rebel leader Thuingaleng Muivah to get into the condition.
Mr Muivah, general desk of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN), waiting for the village Viswema near the Nagaland capital Kohima with a convoy of NSCN leaders and activist hope to travel to his village in Manipur.
The Manipur direction has tried to stop Mr Muivah visits Manipur, who fear the visit could inflame passions as Naga separatist rebel leader is listed to address several meetings in the Naga-inhabited areas in Manipur.
Firing was done in the city where Mao Naga tribal people had gathered.
A photographer Subhamoy Bhattacharjee, who is on the scene, said hundreds of Naga tribal people have defied a curfew imposed on the border. Police said they had to shoot to restore order.
Mr Muivah's NSCN requirements all Naga areas of Manipur to be compound into the State of Nagaland - a claim that get in the way Manipur's majority Meiteis and other tribes as Kukis.
The group has negotiate with the Indian government for 13 years to find a answer to the country's first ethnic rebellion.
The NSCN says it is ready to drop his command for self-government.
But the rebel group continues to push to create a greater Naga state by merging Naga-inhabited areas of Manipur, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.
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