SRINAGAR, Feb 20: Two people were killed and four others wounded on Wednesday when suspected freedom fighters set off a series of explosions in occupied Kashmir, police said.

A paramilitary soldier and a civilian were killed when a landmine went off in Udhampur district, 230km southeast of Srinagar.

Later on Wednesday, two army soldiers and two civilians were wounded in two explosions in Baramulla north of Srinagar, police said. They said bomb disposal squads also defused two powerful landmines in the troubled Valley.

No group has claimed responsibility for the explosions yet.

Elsewhere, four people including two Pakistanis were killed in separate shootouts across the region, police said.—Reuters