At least 10 people were killed and 32 wounded today in explosions and shootouts in strife-torn Kashmir region, police said.
A grenade attack in a crowded market in Srinagar, the summer capital of India's Jammu and Kashmir state, killed one civilian and wounded 23 others, police said.
They said suspected militants hurled the grenade at a paramilitary patrol vehicle at Srinagar's Budshah Chowk (crossing) barely 200 yards from the state's assembly building, where a suicide bomb attack killed 38 people on October 1.
"The grenade missed the target and exploded on the road injuring nearly two dozen civilians, many of them seriously," a police official said.
No militant group has yet claimed responsibility for the Budshah Chowk grenade attack.
Elsewhere, six rebels and two civilians were killed in separate gunbattles across the troubled Valley, police said.
They said seven people including four soldiers were wounded in these incidents.
Authorities say separatist violence has risen in the past ten months in the strife-torn region. More than 3,160 people have been killed in the violence since January.
Nearly a dozen militant groups are fighting New Delhi's rule in Jammu and Kashmir, the country's only Muslim-majority state.
Officials say more than 30,000 people have been killed in the Himalayan region since a rebellion broke out at the end of 1989.