At least 16 people have been killed and sixty hurt in separate attacks in Indian Kashmir in the apst 24 hours.
Four people died and 22 were injured when militants threw a grenade into a hotel packed with tourists in Pahalgam.
Another 20 people were wounded in a separate grenade attack in another part of Kashmir, also blamed on militants fighting Indian rule in the troubled Himalayan region.
"Terrorists hurled a grenade at Hotel Purnima. Twenty-six tourists were injured. Out of the injured, four persons including an eight-year-old girl died," a police statement said.
The victims were Indians, a police official said.
"Apparently there were no foreigners among the casualties," he added.
A little-known group, Al-Nasreen, phoned a local news agency and claimed responsibility for the blast at the popular tourist town.
Indian tourists have flocked to Kashmir this year to take advantage of a lull in violence since India and Pakistan began a peace process in 2003.
In the second incident, 20 civilians were wounded when a grenade was thrown in a crowded part of a town north of Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar.
"Militants attacked a security picket with a grenade which missed the target and exploded on road injuring 20 pedestrians," a police spokesman said.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack in Handwara town.
Elsewhere in the state, 12 people including eight militants and two soldiers were killed in separate incidents in the past 24 hours, police said.
Officials say the number of grenade attacks have increased in recent months even though overall violence has declined in the region since relations improved between India and Pakistan.
Nearly a dozen militant groups are fighting New Delhi's rule in Kashmir, the country's only Muslim-majority state, where officials say more than 40,000 people have been killed since 1989.
India's interior minister said on Friday the government was likely to hold peace talks with Kashmiri separatists in July, aimed at ending the 15-year-old revolt in the region