Authorities have identified the group behind a coordinated terrorist attack on a bus in India after two people were killed and at least 14 injured.

Two police officers have been killed after suspected rebels ambushed a police bus in Indian-administered Kashmir.

Around a dozen others have been injured in the violence, just hours after government forces shot two rebels dead on Monday.

Shortly after darkness fell, attackers sprayed the bus – transporting an unknown number of personnel from the police headquarters in a high-security area of the region’s main city Srinagar – with automatic weapons fire according to Police.

Prime Minister Modi has condemned the attack and has offered his condolences to the families of those that were impacted.

As tensions continue to escalate as well as the violence, Police fired tear gas shells as dozens of angry residents, including women, took to the street near the site of the incident, throwing stones at them amid chants of “We want freedom”.

Last week, suspected rebels had shot dead two police officers in the northern Bandipore area of the Kashmir Valley.

Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistan and both rivals claim the region in its entirety. Rebels have been fighting against Indian rule since 1989.

Human and civil rights groups say some 70,000 people, many of them civilians, have been killed in the conflict to date.