At least 18 Indian paramilitary officers have been killed in a suicide attack on a vehicle convoy in Indian-administered Kashmir.
Police told the BBC that a car filled with explosives rammed a bus carrying the officers to Srinagar, the capital of Indian-administered Kashmir.
The Pakistan-based Islamist group Jaish-e-Mohammad has said it carried out the bombing.
It is the deadliest attack on security forces in Kashmir in two decades.
The blast took place on the heavily guarded Srinagar-Jammu highway about 20km (12 miles) from Srinagar city.
"It's not yet clear how many vehicles were in the convoy that was on its way from Jammu to Srinagar. A car overtook the convoy and rammed into a bus with 44 personnel on board," a senior police official told BBC Urdu's Riyaz Masroor.
He said the death toll might increase because dozens are "critically injured", reports BBC.
