SRINAGAR, Sept 1: Ten people were killed in occupied Kashmir on Monday in a wave of violence which police said was in revenge for the killing by Indian troops two days ago of a top Kashmiri group commander.

A bomb disposal expert was killed and three people injured while trying to defuse an explosive near a key road tunnel, a police spokesman said.

The bomb was placed inside a bag near the Jawahar tunnel, the spokesman said.

Three disposal experts were trying to defuse the bomb but it exploded, killing one and injuring the other two, a police source said. A para-military trooper standing nearby was also injured.

He said the entire area was sealed off to search for the freedom fighters suspected to have planted the bomb, with traffic held up on both sides of the tunnel. —AFP