Srinagar , India ( CNN ) -- The Hizbul Mujahedeen militant group has claimed responsibility for the Wednesday morning attack on an Indian paramilitary camp in Srinagar in Kashmir province . Five Indian officers died at the police training camp , authorities said . It was the first attack in the city of Srinagar in at least three years , CNN 's sister network IBN reported . A Hizbul Mujahedeen spokesman told a local news agency that two militants carried out `` the guerrilla attack '' and warned that `` the outfit will carry on such attacks in ( the ) future also . '' The attack comes a month after the execution in India of a Kashmir militant who led an attack on the nation 's parliament in 2001 . Nine people were killed in that incident . Since Mohammed Afzal Guru 's execution , his supporters in Srinagar have demanded through protest that his body be returned . Authorities in India have accused Pakistan of backing Guru 's attack , which led to a massive mobilization of troops by the two nuclear neighbors along their tense borders . Pakistan denied involvement . Indian Home Secretary R.K. Singh -- who said three civilians and five police officers also were injured in the Srinagar attack -- said Wednesday he believes the attackers came from Pakistan . They `` appeared ... to be not local , but from across the border , '' he said in New Delhi . But Pakistan 's Foreign Office dismissed India 's charge . `` Pakistan strongly rejects any allegations made about its involvement in the incident in Kashmir on Wednesday , '' spokesman Moazzam Ahmed Khan said . That stance was repeated in a Pakistani government press release , which added , `` We feel that this trend of making irresponsible statements and knee-jerk reactions by senior Indian government functionaries have the potential of undermining the efforts made by both sides to normalize relation between the two countries . '' Kashmir has been disputed territory between India and Pakistan since the two countries separated in 1947 after a costly war . Militants supporting Pakistan have been fighting for more than 20 years against Indian rule in the parts controlled by that country , which has a mostly Muslim population . The insurgency has killed more than 43,000 people , but some human rights groups and nongovernmental organizations put the death toll at twice that . The two attackers in the Wednesday incident were killed , said Omar Abdullah , the chief minister of the Indian-administered Kashmir . Journalist Mukhtar Ahmad reported from Srinagar and Ben Brumfield reported and wrote from Atlanta . CNN 's Harmeet Shah Singh contributed to this report .
The Hizbul Mujahedeen militant group claims responsibility and warns of further attacks . It is the first attack in India in years , a CNN sister network reports . Tensions have grown in Kashmir since the execution in Srinagar of a militant from the province . Kashmir has been the scene of separatist violence for a few years .