SRINAGAR, June 1: Three policemen and eight suspected Kashmiri militants were killed in explosions and gunbattles across Indian-occupied Kashmir, police said on Friday, as violence rose with the onset of summer in the region.

Two policemen were killed and six wounded after a grenade attack on a federal police camp in Kulgam district, south of Srinagar.

Hours earlier, suspected Kashmiri militants set off a bomb in the heart of Srinagar, wounding at least 16 Indian soldiers in an army bus. Kashmir's frontline militant group, Hizbul Mujahideen, claimed responsibility for the attack.

Elsewhere, eight militants and a policeman were killed and six soldiers wounded in separate clashes between militants and troops across the region in the last 24 hours, police said.

Violence has flared up in Kashmir in recent weeks after the end of winter.—Reuters