At least 21 people have been killed in Indian Kashmir in the past 24 hours in the worst violence in the region for months.
It was the highest death toll, which included five soldiers and 12 Muslim rebels, for a single day since India and Pakistan, which both claim the region, began improving ties in April.
A police spokesman said militants ambushed an army patrol near the Pakistan border in the Kupwara district on Monday, killing two soldiers.
Militants killed another soldier in the heart of Srinagar, the summer capital of India's Jammu and Kashmir state and the centre of the insurgency.
No militant group claimed responsibility for the attacks.
Elsewhere 12 militants, two soldiers and four civilians were killed in separate shootouts across the strife-torn region in the past 24 hours, police said.
India accuses Pakistan of stoking rebellion in Kashmir, which lies at the heart of half a century of hostility between the nuclear neighbours.
Pakistan denies the charges but says it provides moral and diplomatic support to what it calls a Kashmiri freedom struggle.
Authorities say about 38,000 people have been killed in Kashmir since the insurgency began in 1989.