SRINAGAR, Sept 1: Twelve people including two children have been killed in armed attacks in occupied Jammu and Kashmir state in the past 24 hours, police said on Sunday.

A police spokesman said gunmen fired at a house in a village southwest of Srinagar.

“Militants killed two sons, aged 10 and 12, of a Muslim day labourer in the Poonch district and injured his eight-year old third son,” he said.

The Kashmiris barged into their house early on Sunday. Poonch is 256km north of winter capital, Jammu.

“The militants are trying to intimidate the employees by killing their children so that they will not accept election duty,” the official added.

Earlier on Saturday evening, an army soldier was killed and two others wounded when suspected Kashmiris attacked a security patrol at Naidgam area of Doda district, police said.

In another incident, a security force personnel was killed when a bomb fitted in a television went off at the gates of security camp in Shopian in south Kashmir, police said.—Reuters