An explosive hidden inside a video cassette recorder set off a powerful blast in a busy market in Jammu-Kashmir on Sunday, killing two civilians and wounding six others, police said.

The VCR, which apparently contained a timed device, had been brought purportedly for repairs to an electronic shop in Rajauri, one of the towns worst-affected by 13 years of militancy in Indian-controlled Kashmir, a police officer at the local control room said on condition of anonymity.

The town is located 180 kilometers (110 miles) northwest of Jammu, the winter capital of Jammu-Kashmir state.

The shop owner and his assistant were instantly killed. Two of the wounded were in critical condition, the officer said. The area had been cordoned off by security forces as they looked for the man who brought the VCR.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the explosion.

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