SRINAGAR, Dec 21: Eight people have been killed and 10 wounded in explosions and shootouts in Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Friday.

A policeman was killed and three people were wounded on Friday when a crude bomb planted in a transistor radio exploded in a bus in the border district of Rajouri, police said.

The policeman picked up an unclaimed radio from the roadside and got into a bus when the bomb went off, a police official said.

No militant group claimed responsibility for the blast but police officials blamed the Lashkar-i-Taiba group which India say was also behind last week’s suicide attack on parliament.

Later on Friday seven people including three Indian soldiers were wounded when unidentified militants threw a grenade at an army vehicle in Budgam district west of Srinagar.

Four militants and three civilians were killed in separate shootouts over the previous 24 hours across the troubled region, police said on Friday evening.

—Reuters