Rebels assaulted a police group in Indian-regulated Kashmir on Friday, killing two officials and injuring one in spite of tight security in the contested larger part Muslim locale in front of India's Independence Day.

A gathering of contenders started shooting at the police group that was working in the Nowgam zone of Srinagar city, the head of police in Kashmir, Vijay Kumar, told the Reuters news office.

"We had inputs that aggressors may do assault and were ready," said Kumar. "They got through a thin path and terminated unpredictably."

He said the renegades had been distinguished and vowed to "kill them" soon. The territory had been cordoned off quests were going on, he said.

The assault comes days after the principal commemoration of the repudiation of Kashmir's constitutional self-sufficiency, a change the Indian government said would advance the area's improvement by attracting it closer to the remainder of the country.

However, numerous individuals in Kashmir considered the to be of unique self-sufficiency as another progression in the disintegration of the privileges of Muslims by the Hindu nationalist government. The administration dismisses that.

Kashmir has been questioned by India and neighboring Pakistan since the finish of the British colonial guideline in 1947. The two countries guarantee it in full however rule it to some degree.

In excess of 50,000 individuals have been executed in over 30 years of equipped resistance in Kashmir that India blames Pakistan for fuelling by supporting Muslim renegade gatherings battling India's security powers in its piece of the partitioned district.

Pakistan says it just offers political help to its kindred Muslims in the Himalayan district.  India to celebrate Independence Day on Saturday.

SOURCE: Reuters news agency