Twenty-one people were injured today when a grenade hurled by suspected Islamic rebels went off among civilians in Indian Kashmir, police said.
Nine others, including six Islamic militants, were killed in separatist violence around the province, police said.
The militants had targetted a bus carrying police traveling through Kulgam, a township 70 kilometers (43 miles) south of the summer capital Srinagar, but the grenade missed its mark and hit a bus carrying civilians, said a police official.
Of the 21 injured, four were in serious condition and transferred for treatment to a Srinagar hospital, he said. Meanwhile, suspected Islamic militants Sunday shot dead a police officer and his son in the village of Gundqaiser near Bandipora township, 60 kilometers (38 miles) north of Srinagar, a police spokesman said.
Kashmir is in the throes of an Islamic insurgency against Indian rule. More than 37,500 people have died since the rebellion began in 1989, according to Indian security forces. Separatists and Pakistan put the death toll twice as high.
AFP