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SRINAGAR, Monday (AFP) A policeman killed when a "television bomb" exploded was among seven victims, including two children, of the latest violence in Indian Kashmir, police said Sunday.

A TV set packed with explosives detonated outside a security camp near Shopian town, some 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of summer capital Srinagar, a police spokesman said.

Police said unidentified militants had planted the booby-trapped set at the camp's main gate and it went off when Shabir Ahmed, a curious policeman, fiddled with its switches.

Two children of a state government worker were shot dead by rebels in southern Kashmir late Saturday in Poonch district, 210 kilometres (130 miles) west from Kashmir's winter capital of Jammu, police said.

The militants entered the home of Mohammad Qayoom and opened fire, killing his two sons aged 10 and 12 years. His eight-year old daughter too was injured in attack.

Indian troops on Sunday shot dead two fighters of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad guerrilla group in the southern Kashmir district of Pulwama, a spokesman from the paramilitary BSF said.

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