SRINAGAR, June 14: Eleven people were killed in Kashmir, two days after a rebel grenade attack killed five tourists and injured 27 others. A police spokesman on Monday said Mushtaq Ahmed, a former police counter-insurgency official, and his father were shot dead in their house by suspected militants overnight near the town of Thanamandi in southern Rajouri district.

Suspected rebels hurled a grenade at the house of a retired government official in Wahipora village of northern Baramulla district, killing him and a woman guest late on Sunday, police said. His son was injured in the explosion.

The police said suspected militants shot dead four more Muslims, including a municipal employee and an alleged police informer, in different parts of the state overnight.

One of the 23 civilians injured in a rebel grenade attack in northern Handwara town on Saturday died in a hospital on Monday, police said. Indian troops on Monday shot dead two militants in separate encounters in Budgam and Kupwara districts, police said. -AFP