Indian Border Security Force (BSF) soldiers and police stand near a damaged vehicle at the site of a shootout on the outskirts of Srinagar, on March 21,2013. PHOTO: AFP
"Two Border Security Forces personnel were injured when their vehicle came under fire from unknown gunmen," Ashiq Bukhari, senior superintendent of police in Srinagar, told AFP.
A BSF official, who cannot be identified, said three members of the force were injured in the attack at Nowgam on the outskirts of Srinagar, one of whom was in a critical condition.
The shootings comes barely a week after militants disguised as cricketers killed five paramilitary police in Srinigar in the deadliest attack for nearly five years.
Violence in Kashmir -- a scenic Himalayan region which is divided between India and Pakistan and claimed by both -- had largely died down in recent years after a revolt began in 1989.
But tensions have mounted since the execution last month of a Kashmiri separatist over a deadly 2001 attack on the national parliament in New Delhi.
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