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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/01/AR2007060100311.html
SRINAGAR, India -- Suspected Islamic militants lobbed a hand grenade into a paramilitary camp in the Indian portion of Kashmir on Friday, killing two soldiers and critically wounding another three, police said.
The blast occurred in the Central Reserve Police Force camp in Nihama, a village 45 miles south of Srinagar, the capital of India's Jammu-Kashmir state, said local police chief S. P. Pani.
The critically wounded soldiers were sent to a Srinagar hospital for specialized treatment, Pani said.
No one claimed responsibility for the attack on the paramilitary camp.
Also Friday, suspected militants targeted Indian troops in a bomb attack in Srinagar, wounding 15 soldiers, police said.
The 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 hospitalized in Srinagar, one in critical condition, Ahmed told The Associated Press.
In a statement faxed to the local Kashmir News Service, Hezb-ul-Mujahedeen spokesman Ahsan Illahi said his group claims responsibility for the attack.
Hezb-ul-Mujahedeen is one of a dozen rebel groups fighting for Kashmir's independence from India or its merger with Pakistan since 1989. More than 68,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in the conflict.
India and Pakistan have fought two wars over control of Kashmir since they won independence from Britain in 1947.
The longtime rivals have been holding talks since 2004 to settle the Kashmir dispute, but without success so far.