A suspected car bomb exploded today in the main business district of Srinagar, the summer capital of India’s Jammu-Kashmir state, injuring scores of people, witnesses said.

INDIAN security forces battled rebels in Kashmir and suspected insurgents detonated a grenade in a busy market Thursday in violence that left 12 people dead.

A grenade exploded at a crowded market in the summer capital of Indian-held Kashmir, killing a shopkeeper, while security forces shot dead 10 suspected militants elsewhere in the Himalayan region today.