SRINAGAR, Jan 11: Sixteen people, mainly guerillas, were killed on Friday in fresh violence in Jammu and Kashmir which is at the heart of a military standoff between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan, police said.

Also on Friday, unidentified guerillas hurled a grenade at an army vehicle in the heart of Srinagar, but missed their target and caused no damage or injuries, a police statement said.

“Terrorists lobbed a grenade towards a security force vehicle... which missed the target and exploded on the road without causing any damage,” the statement said.

Six Mujahideen were killed in a fierce gunbattle in the Anantnag district south of Srinagar, police said.

In another shootout, an Indian soldier, a civilian and two militants were killed in the Kapran area, police said. Elsewhere four militants, an Indian paramilitary officer and a civilian, were killed in separate shootouts in the valley, police said.

ID CARDS: Paramilitary border guards in occupied Kashmir on Friday stopped police and army vehicles to check the identity cards of the uniformed men on board, witnesses said.