Ten people were killed in separatist violence in held Kashmir, while attacks near the territory’s holiest mosque and a Christian school left nine injured, police said on Saturday.- A bomb planted in a three-wheeler taxi went off on Saturday as Indian soldiers passed by the Hazratbal shrine in Srinagar, injuring three civilians and three troops of the Border Security Force, police said. Hizbul Mujahedin, the largest militant group in Kashmir, claimed responsibility for the blast, Srinagar-based media said. Hazratbal is considered Kashmir’s holiest shrine as it houses a whisker said to have come from the Prophet Mohammed.
- In Pulwama, suspected rebels hurled a hand grenade at a Christian missionary school that went off in the lawn, injuring two Muslim employees of the school and a police guard, police said. Gunmen had opened fire on a bus of the same school, Good Shepherd Mission, on Thursday without causing injuries.
- Separately, an Indian soldier and three militants were killed on Saturday in Rajouri district, senior police official SM Sahai said.
- Two more militants died in the southern Poonch district and an Indian soldier was killed in northern Kupwara, police said.
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