Seven people, including three soldiers, were killed and 22 wounded in separate incidents of violence in India's disputed Kashmir today, police said.
Rebel violence has continued in Kashmir despite an easing of tensions between nuclear-armed neighbours India and Pakistan, who have massed a million troops on their border.
The soldiers were killed when an army vehicle ran over a landmine near Pahalgam, 100 km southeast of Srinagar, the summer capital of India's troubled northern state of Jammu and Kashmir.
Kashmir's frontline militant group, Hizbul Mujahideen, claimed responsibility for the attack.
In a separate incident, suspected rebels lobbed a grenade into a crowded marketplace in the town of Anantnag, 55 km south of Srinagar, injuring 22 people, the official said. No group has claimed responsibility for the grenade attack.
It is also reported that the Border Security Force shot dead four guerrillas in a fierce gunbattle at Kokernag, in Anantnag district in south Kashmi today.