Srinagar, Sept. 8 :    Srinagar, Sept. 8:  A group of schoolchildren on a picnic was sucked into Kashmir's minefield of violence which exploded with chilling regularity today in the run-up to the mini-summit between Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Pervez Musharraf in New York this month. Eleven-year-old Nadia Fayaz was killed and 12 of her classmates as well as a teacher wounded when their bus, bound for a health resort in Pahalgam, ran over an improvised landmine in south Kashmir's Anantnag. However, the children travelling in three other buses escaped unhurt. Nadia, whose face was disfigured by shrapnel, could not be identified for as many as six hours. Her body was brought to the police control room before being handed over to relatives. Nadia's father, Fayaz Ahmad, had died last year. Anxious parents thronged the police hospital. 'My whole family was on the road till late this evening. We had no information about our daughter. It's only now that we saw her. She is safe as she was travelling in another bus,' said Abdul Rashid, father of one of the picnic-bound children, in the evening. A teacher of the school said four buses had left for Pahalgam this morning, but it was only the last that hit the explosive device. 'The bus did not take the full impact but only a part of the explosive device,' a police officer said. The spasm of violence also claimed six BSF personnel, including a commandant, and three armymen. A landmine blew up the bullet-proof vehicle of S.S. Dihiya, 161 BSF commandant, in Jammu's Udhampur, killing him and his five guards. As news of the blast reached Udhampur and Ramban, reinforcements were sent to the spot. Massive combing operations have been ordered in the area, sources said, adding that the bodies were brought to Ramban. Militants also ambushed an army convoy on the Srinagar-Kupwara highway near Natnussa village this afternoon, killing three soldiers and injuring seven. Police said the militants fired grenades on the vehicles. Sources said escorts of the convoy fired back. Authorities have sealed the area. An explosive was detonated on the Jammu-Srinagar highway, injuring a soldier. Militants also gunned down the block president of the ruling National Conference, Haji Ghulam Rasool, in Srinagar. Lashkar-e-Jabbar, the militant group which imposed the burqa diktat, today asked non-Muslim women living in Kashmir to apply 'bindi' and wear saffron dupattas for identification and exempt them from the burqa order. It asked Hindu and Sikh 'sisters' to have some identification mark to avoid any action proposed by it against Muslim women without veils.