Srinagar: Suspected Islamic militants attacked a paramilitary camp, a police post and an Army vehicle in Kashmir in an upsurge in violence on Friday, killing three government soldiers and wounding another 22, police said.
A grenade attack at the paramilitary camp killed at least two soldiers in Nihama, a village 45 miles south of Srinagar, Police chief S P Pani said.
Three soldiers are critically wounded in the blast were taken to a hospital, Pani added.
''We are verifying from where the grenade was lobbed,'' Prabhakar Tripathy, a spokesman for the Central Reserve Police Force said.
Also on Friday, suspected rebels fired at a police post at Sheeri, a village 45 miles north of Srinagar, killing one policeman and critically wounding another four, said a senior superintendent of police, Viplav Kumar.
No one claimed responsibility for the two attacks.
Hours earlier, militants triggered an improvised explosive device as an Army vehicle passed by in a high-security zone in Srinagar, said Sajjad Ahmed, a police officer. The 15 wounded soldiers were hospitalised, one in critical condition.
In a statement faxed to the local Kashmir News Service, Hizbul Mujahideen spokesman Ahsan Illahi claimed his group's responsibility for the attack.
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