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Grenade attack in crowd kills 2 in Kashmir

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  • 7-year-old boy and a tourist were killed, police said
  • Attack took place at bus stop at Gulmarg resort in Indian-administered Kashmir
  • No one has claimed responsibility for the blast
  • Saturday, a bombing on an army convoy killed nine Indian soldiers in same area
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(CNN) -- Two people were killed and four wounded Sunday when militants hurled a grenade at a crowd in a popular mountainous resort in Kashmir, police said.

A 7-year-old boy and a tourist were killed when the powerful blast occurred at a bus stop at the Gulmarg resort in Indian-administered Kashmir.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, the second in the area in two days. Saturday, a deadly bombing on an army convoy killed nine Indian soldiers and wounded 14 others near the capital city of Srinagar.

The Gulmarg resort, about 28 miles from Srinagar, is a popular tourist and ski location.

For the past 18 years,Kashmir has been wracked by a bloody separatist campaign. Authorities say up to 43,000 people have died in the violence, although some human rights groups and nongovernmental organizations put the death toll at twice that.

Journalist Mukhtar Ahmed contributed to this report.

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