SRINAGAR, July 12: Eight Kashmiris, including five girl students, were injured on Saturday in a bomb explosion while six other people were killed in violence elsewhere in occupied Kashmir, police said.

The bomb went off in the rear seat of a bus carrying students in Bandipora township, 60km from Srinagar, police said.

Meanwhile, a Muslim who worked with the Indian army was kidnapped from his house near Kokernag in Anantnag late Friday and shot dead on Saturday morning, police said. The victim, Shabir Ahmed, had gone to his house for a holiday.

Police said suspected freedom fighters shot dead another man, Mohammed Rafiq, in the Doda district. Separately, a policeman was killed and five other people were injured in a gunbattle with the freedom fighters overnight in the Poonch district, a police spokesman said.

Three more Kashmiri activists were killed in the districts of Kupwara and Rajouri, police said.—AFP