Suspected rebels hurled grenades at a crowded market and a checkpoint in separate attacks in the main city of Indian-controlled Kashmir on Monday, wounding at least six people, police said. Rebels hurled a grenade into a market in Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu-Kashmir state, wounding three civilians and an Indian army soldier, said police officer Ejaz Ahmed. The rebels appeared to have targeted a foot patrol in the Lal Chowk area, the city's business center, Ahmed said. Hours later, a second grenade attack on a paramilitary checkpoint in the city left a policeman and a woman wounded, police officer Javed Ahmad said. No one claimed responsibility for the attacks. Elsewhere in the Himalayan region, three people were wounded as security forces fired into a crowd protesting against a search operation. The incident occurred in Hushru village, where security forces were searching houses for rebels, a local police officer said. The villagers protested the operation and tried to break the security cordon around their homes, prompting the soldiers to open fire, said the officer, who did not want to be named. Hushru is about 35 kilometers (20 miles) southwest of Srinagar. The 14-year insurgency in India's only Muslim-majority state has claimed more than 66,000 lives.
