Two persons were killed and three, including a child, wounded when militants opened fire on the vehicle [Sumo] in which they were travelling near Dhandak village in Poonch district of Jammu on Thursday evening.

Police identified the dead as Azmat Hussain and Sher Hussain. The injured were shifted to a nearby hospital.

No one has yet admitted responsibility for the attack, which came hours after four passengers of a bus died in an explosion in Rajouri.