Two people were killed and six wounded on Friday when guerrillas threw grenades and opened fire at a police station in Indian Kashmir, police and witnesses said.
After a period of relative calm, guerillas fighting Indian rule have stepped up attacks across Kashmir, where officials say more than 47,000 people have been killed in 20 years of anti-India insurgency.
No militant group has claimed responsibility for Friday's attack, which killed a policeman and a civilian and took place in the busy Sopore town north of Srinagar, Kashmir's summer capital.
"They fired indiscriminately on police station before throwing a grenade," Mohammad Ashraf, a witness, told Reuters. "I saw people were running for cover."
Mainly Muslim Kashmir is at the core of decades of hostility between India and Pakistan and the cause of two of the three wars they have fought since independence in 1947.
After a period of relative calm, guerillas fighting Indian rule have stepped up attacks across Kashmir, where officials say more than 47,000 people have been killed in 20 years of anti-India insurgency.
No militant group has claimed responsibility for Friday's attack, which killed a policeman and a civilian and took place in the busy Sopore town north of Srinagar, Kashmir's summer capital.
"They fired indiscriminately on police station before throwing a grenade," Mohammad Ashraf, a witness, told Reuters. "I saw people were running for cover."
Mainly Muslim Kashmir is at the core of decades of hostility between India and Pakistan and the cause of two of the three wars they have fought since independence in 1947.
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