Twenty-three wounded in Kashmir explosions

Twenty-three people were wounded today in grenade explosions in India's restive state of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.

Twenty-three people were wounded today in grenade explosions in India's restive state of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.

A police statement said three Indo Tibetan Border Police personnel and 17 civilians were hurt when a grenade was lobbed at an ITBP group in Bijbehara in Anantnag district this morning.

Earlier in the day, unidentified militants threw a grenade at a drug store in Bandipura town in north Kashmir, injuring two civilians, police said.

They said one woman was seriously injured when militants hurled a grenade at a house on the outskirts of Srinagar, the state's summer capital.

No militant group has claimed responsibility for the attacks.

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 ceasefire and stepped up attacks on Indian security forces.

More than 30,000 people have been killed in separatist violence in the Himalayan region since 1990.

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