Jammu, India ? Suspected Islamic militants set off several grenades and exchanged gunfire with police at a 150-year-old Hindu temple Saturday in Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said. Ten people were killed and 20 injured in the assault.

Two attackers got out of a white van outside the temple in a crowded shopping district in Jammu, and threw several grenades, a police officer said on condition of anonymity.

The Islamic Front, a Kashmiri rebel group whose leadership is based in Pakistan, later claimed responsibility for the attack in a telephone call to The Associated Press office in Jammu.

“We have done this because of violence against Muslims in India,” said a caller who identified himself as an aide of Bilal Beg, the group’s leader. “This is just the beginning.”