Police said militants attacked the CRPF vehicle in Pantha Chowk on the outskirts of Srinagar city outside the Delhi Public School (DPS) in the evening.
"A sub-inspector of the CRPF was killed and two CRPF troopers injured in this attack," police said.
In another incident, a local policeman and a CRPF trooper were injured at the site of the militant attack when the rifle of a policeman went off accidentally.
The injured have been shifted to hospital for treatment and the school has been surrounded to trace the militants, police said.
Spokesman of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) Abdullah Ghaznavi called a local news agency to own responsibility for the attack.
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