SRINAGAR, April 11: A senior minister in held Kashmir accused police of ineptitude during a rebel attack on an election rally where he was injured, as seven more deaths were reported on Sunday in the insurgency.

State Finance Minister Muzaffar Hussain Beigh demanded a judicial inquiry into police performance during the attack on the Thursday rally in which 11 people were killed including two policemen.

Beigh and state Tourism Minister Ghulam Hassan Mir were among 70 people injured in the attack in Uri. "They (policemen) were so stone-hearted that they didn't even lift the dead bodies," Beigh said, adding that his staffers did the rescue work. Beigh said there were some "rotten eggs" in the police department who needed to be thrown out. -AFP