Thirteen people including four Indian security force personnel and five separatist guerrillas have been killed in violence in the troubled Kashmir region in the past 24 hours, police said today.
They said one person was killed and 15 others were wounded when suspected guerrillas threw a grenade in a crowded street in Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir state.
Police said the grenade was aimed at a paramilitary patrol.
"The grenade missed the intended target and exploded on a busy crossing. One civilian died on the spot and 15 others were wounded," a police official said.
No militant group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack.
Earlier, militants shot dead a policeman on the outskirts of Srinagar. Three Indian security force personnel and three separatist militants were killed on Friday evening in a fierce gun battle at Morra Khakha area of Rajouri district, some 280 miles southwest of Srinagar.
In another gun battle Indian soldiers shot dead two militants in Anantnag district of south Kashmir last night.
Elsewhere three civilians, one of them a woman, had been killed in separate shootouts in the troubled region since yesterday.
Authorities said civilian and police casualties in Kashmir had risen since India suspended offensive operations in the troubled region last November.
Militants have killed 288 civilians since the cease-fire began compared with 202 killed in the same period a year ago. The number of police killed in militant attacks had risen to 46 from 26.
Nearly a dozen militant groups are fighting New Delhi's rule in Jammu and Kashmir, India's only Muslim majority state. Most of the militant groups have rejected India's cease-fire and stepped up attacks on India security forces.