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SRINAGAR, India, Oct 2 (Reuters) - A landmine killed five Indian troops on Wednesday in Kashmir, the flashpoint state at the centre of tensions between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan.

The blast came barely an hour after suspected Islamic militants exploded a bomb on a bus full of Hindu pilgrims in south Kashmir, killing at least one person and injuring 21.

A Border Security Force official told Reuters the troops died when their vehicle ran over a mine at Dral, just south of Srinagar, the summer capital, a day after the third and bloodiest round of a state election.

Jammu and Kashmir has been racked by violence aimed at derailing an election India hopes will bolster its rule in the disputed region that has triggered two of its three wars with Pakistan since independence.

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