At least nine people were injured in overnight attacks by suspected Kashmiri freedom fighters on eight polling stations ahead of today's voting in the Indian Kashmir constituency of Anantnag-Pulwama, police said. Attackers threw a grenade at a polling booth in the village of Sarnal, injuring three polling officials and five members of the paramilitary forces, a police spokesman said. Another paramilitary official was injured when attackers fired on a voting station in the village of Bijbehara, he said, adding that six other polling stations had been attacked but that no other casualties were reported. Polling stations in Anantnag, 50km south of the summer capital Srinagar, were deserted when the third round of the parliamentary vote in the territory got under way at 7am, an eyewitness said. Federal paramilitary forces and local police have been deployed around all the 1,176 voting centres in the constituency which has 998,905 registered voters, police said. Kashmir has six seats in India's federal parliament, with voting staggered over four rounds ending May 10. Separatists and Islamic groups have called on Kashmiris to boycott the elections, saying they will not resolve the future of the Himalayan territory, held in part by India and Pakistan but claimed in full by both. At least 20 people have been killed in attacks on election rallies in Kashmir over the past month. Anantnag-Pulwama is the only Kashmiri constituency being contested Wednesday in Kashmir, but voting was also taking place in 82 other constituencies in other parts of India, mainly in the Hindi-speaking north. **PHOTO CAPTION*** Kashmiri youths shout anti-election slogans outside a polling booth in Bejbehara, in the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir May 5, 2004. (Reuters)