SRINAGAR, Oct 9: A suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into an army convoy in held Kashmir on Saturday, killing four soldiers and a civilian and wounding 30 more, police said.

A caller from Jaish-i-Mohammad, claimed responsibility for the attack on a highway near Pattan, south of Srinagar.

"It was a ground-shaking explosion ... initial reports suggest it was a suicide car bomber," a police official said, adding that some houses and vehicles were damaged in the explosion.

Witnesses said the area had been cordoned off for search operations. The latest violence came minutes after thousands of school children held a peace march in Srinagar for the first time since the rebellion broke out in the region in 1989, witnesses said.-Reuters