Ten people, including three Indian soldiers, were killed in separate incidents of violence in India's strife-torn Kashmir region during the past 24 hours, police said.
"Early this morning a group of heavily armed militants fired with automatic weapons at a Border Security Force camp at Kalakote," a police official said.
Two soldiers were killed and at least three others were injured.
Kalakote is located in Rajouri district, southwest of Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir.
The disputed Himalayan region remains at the heart of a military standoff between India and Pakistan. They have fought two of their three wars over Kashmir since 1947.
A pro-Pakistan militant group, Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen, claimed responsibility for the attack.
Suspected separatists killed two activists of Kashmir's ruling National Conference party in Rajwara village near the Pakistan border in Kupwara district northwest of Srinagar, police said. A woman was seriously hurt in the shootout.
Three civilians, two militants and a soldier were killed in separate incidents of violence across the state since yesterday evening.
About a dozen rebel groups are fighting India's rule in Muslim-majority Kashmir, where authorities say about 33,000 people have died in 12 years of rebellion. Separatists put the death toll closer to 80,000.