5 Soldiers, 2 Militants Killed in Indian Kashmir Two militants carrying guns and grenades attacked a group of paramilitary soldiers Wednesday morning on the outskirts of the capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir, leaving five soldiers and both militants dead and 10 more people wounded, a police official said. It was the bloodiest militant attack in the capital in years. The two militants, who had their weapons hidden in a sports bag, mixed with a group of local boys playing cricket near a school compound for the children of police officials before lobbing grenades at the paramilitary troops, said S.A Mujtaba, a senior police officer. No students or teachers were at the school because of ongoing strikes in the wake of the February execution of a Kashmiri militant. Seven of those injured were members of the paramilitary force, the Central Reserve Police Force, and three were civilians, police said. Officials said earlier that the attack had occurred at a paramilitary camp, which is next to the school. By midday, the entire area was inundated with heavily armed soldiers searching for any surviving militants. Indian police men secure the area after a gun battle in Srinagar, India, Wednesday, March 13, 2013. A team of militants stormed a paramilitary camp Wednesday morning in the capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir, leaving five soldiers and two militants dead and 10 more people wounded, a police official said. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) Close Kashmir has been wracked by more than two decades of separatist violence. While militant attacks have decreased dramatically in recent years, Kashmir has faced weeks of strikes and protests after the hanging of Mohammed Afzal Guru, who was executed for his involvement in a 2001 attack on India's Parliament that killed 14 people, including five of the gunmen. Many Kashmiris do not believe Guru received a fair trial. Anger in a region where anti-India sentiment runs deep was further fueled by the execution's secrecy. No one has claimed responsibility for Wednesday's attack, though suspicion immediately fell on Muslim separatists. Ashok Prasad, a top official with the Kashmir police, said the style of attack, with a small team of militants charging through the compound firing on soldiers, "had the signature" of the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba. India's federal home secretary R.K. Singh also said that the militants appeared to be from Pakistan. Indian officials accuse Pakistan's intelligence agency of working with Lashkar-e-Taiba to plan the bloody 2008 Mumbai siege - an allegation Islamabad denies. Lashkar-e-Taiba was formed with the help of Pakistani intelligence over two decades ago to put pressure on India over Kashmir. Pakistan has since banned the group but has seemingly done little to crack down on the militants. Many analysts believe they still enjoy state support. The Himalayan region is divided between India and Pakistan, but claimed in its entirety by both. The insurgents are demanding either a separate state or a merger with Muslim-majority Pakistan.