At least eight people have been killed in four days of violent protests in Pakistani-occupied Kashmir, Pakistani officials said on Thursday, and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif set up a committee of senior officials to resolve the ongoing clashes.

Only limited information has so far reached the outside world about the full extent of the protests, which broke out when thousands of people from nearby towns converged on regional capital Muzaffarabad on Monday.

Authorities have since cut off phone links and internet access to the region, where control is divided between Pakistan and India, which have disputed the territory since the two countries were formed in 1947.

Photos from Muzaffarabad showed riot police firing tear gas on a bridge on Wednesday.

Three policemen and five civilians have

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