Indian-administered Kashmir's main city was under curfew Thursday after the killing of five paramilitary police and the death of two civilians cranked up tensions in the disputed region. Kashmir's inspector general of police Abdul Gani Mir said a round-the-clock curfew order had been imposed in the city of Srinagar while there were similar restrictions in other towns and villages in the Kashmir Valley. "It is an indefinite curfew," Mir told AFP in Srinagar where major roads were blocked with steel barricades and coils of razor wire.

New Delhi, Mar 13 (EFE).- Five members of the Indian security forces were killed and 10 people were wounded in an attack by insurgents dressed as cricket players at a barracks in Srinagar, in Indian Kashmir, officials said. Two of the insurgents also died in the attack, which lasted about 30 minutes, according to a police source consulted by Efe. The insurgents used grenades to try and penetrate into the interior of the barracks, located very close to a school that remained closed on Wednesday, according to local media.

Militants disguised as cricketers killed five paramilitary police in an ambush in the main city of Indian Kashmir on Wednesday, officials said, in the deadliest attack for nearly five years. Two gunmen from the local pro-Pakistan Hizbul Mujahideen, which claimed the attack, were shot dead after the assault on a police compound housing a barracks, school and playing field, the officials said.

Indian Kashmir-based militant group claims deadly police attack: report pvz-adp/pdh/