Militants fired three grenades at a school in Indian Kashmir on Tuesday, five minutes after a federal minister had left the premises, police said.
The Muslim guerrilla group, Hizbul Mujahideen, claimed responsibility for the attack.
A spokesman for the guerrilla group told Reuters it had been targeting Omar Abdullah, who is India's minister of state for industries and commerce and the son of Jammu and Kashmir's chief minister.
The incident came less than a week after India called off a six-month-old suspension of hostilities against militants in the insurgency-plagued state.
Police said Abdullah had inaugurated a computer center at the school in Srinagar, summer capital of the Muslim-majority Indian state. Five minutes after he left, three grenades were fired, and two students were injured as two of them exploded.
Abdullah's father, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah, survived a similar attempt on his life earlier this year -- SRINAGAR, India (Reuters)
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