SRINAGAR: At least three heavily armed militants stormed an army camp in the Indian portion of Kashmir on Wednesday, wounding an officer and a civilian worker as intense firing set barracks and a vehicle on fire, the army said.

The fighting raged close to the heavily militarized line of control dividing Kashmir between India and Pakistan, said an army officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to reporters.

He said the militants used grenades and gunfire to attack the camp, located about 150 kilometers (95 miles) northwest of Indian Kashmir's main city of Srinagar. The camp houses the Indian army's headquarters in the frontier region.

There was no independent confirmation of the incident. No rebel group fighting Indian rule immediately issued any statement.

There also was no confirmation of an earlier report that an oil depot inside the camp had caught fire.

Rebels have been fighting against Indian rule since 1989. More than 68,000 people have been killed in the uprising and Indian military crackdown.

India and Pakistan have fought two wars over their competing claims to Kashmir since they won independence from Britain in 1947, and each country administers part of the region.

India accuses Pakistan of arming and funding the rebels, while Islamabad denies it and says it provides only moral and diplomatic support to separatists.