Violence continues to spiral in Kashmir ahead of the second round poll which India hopes will legitimise its control of the contentious state.
Two members of India's main communist party in Kashmir were killed and a government minister was attacked twice as violence continued ahead of the next round of a state poll.
A police spokesman said a Communist Party of India (Marxist) activist was also wounded when militants barged into a house and opened fire overnight in Jammu and Kashmir state
Suspected militants detonated a bomb near the motorcade of Kashmir Tourism Minister Sakina Itoo while she was on her way to an election rally on Saturday, killing one policeman and a teenage girl.
Several people, including three policemen and a girl, were also wounded in the powerful explosion that was followed by gunfire, a police statement said.
It was the second attack on Itoo, the only female minister in Kashmir, in the past 24 hours and the fourth since campaigning began for the poll.
Police also recovered a bullet riddled body of 60-year-old Abdul Rehman, an activist of Kashmir's ruling National Conference party in southern Kashmir. Elsewhere, at least 10 people were wounded when suspected militants threw a grenade at an election rally in Kashmir on Saturday, police said, just days before the next round of a bloody state poll. "Today militants hurled a grenade towards a Congress Party rally at Kokernag causing injuries to 10 people," a police official told journalists.
Mohammed Syed, an official of the main opposition Congress Party, was addressing the rally at Kokernag at the time of the blast. Several of the wounded were in critical condition, the official said. It was not immediately known if Syed was also wounded.
Kokernag lies in Anantnag district, 55 km (34 miles) south of Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir state. Elections are due in Anantnag on October 1.
No militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack in the disputed Himalayan region at the heart of a military stand-off between India and Pakistan.
More than 460 people, including a ruling National Conference Minister and almost 30 political activists, have died since the poll was announced on August 2.
Islamic separatists, who have been waging a revolt against Indian rule in the state since 1989, have vowed to derail the poll by attacking anyone involved in it.