Indian Occupied Kashmir's deputy chief minister on Monday escaped the second assassination bid in a week but six people died and 38 were injured in a grenade blast as he addressed a public rally, police said.
Mangat Ram Sharma, roads and buildings minister Ghulam Ahmed Mir and power minister Mohammed Sharief Niaz were unhurt by the powerful explosion, a police spokesman said in occupied Srinagar.
Some 38 others, including six policemen, an American woman and three journalists, were hurt in the attack around 3:50 pm (1020 GMT) in the town of Kapran in southern Anantnag district, some 50 kilometres (31 miles) south of occupied Srinagar.
The private secretary of one of the three ministers, two women and two men were killed, while at least two state senior leaders of India's ruling party Congress were among the injured.