Three policemen and eight suspected separatist militants were killed in explosions and gun battles across Indian-held Kashmir, police said on Friday. Two policemen were killed and six wounded after a grenade attack on a federal police camp in Kulgam district, south of Srinagar, summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir state.
Hours earlier, suspected militants set off a bomb in the heart of Srinagar, wounding at least 16 soldiers in an army bus. KashmirÂ’s frontline rebel group, Hizbul Mujahideen, claimed responsibility for the attack.
Elsewhere, eight militants and a policeman were killed and six soldiers wounded in separate clashes between militants and troops across the revolt-torn region in the last 24 hours, police said.