SRINAGAR: A suicide attacker rammed his car into a paramilitary truck on Tuesday in Kashmir's capital, killing himself and a soldier and wounding 19 others, police said, a day before India's prime minister arrives in the embattled region to hold peace talks. Those injured in the attack included 16 members of the paramilitary Border Security Force and three civilians, police officer Dilip Singh told The Associated Press. A man who said he was a member of Kashmir's largest militant group Hezbul Mujahedeen said in a call to newspaper offices that the militant outfit had carried out the attack. The car exploded on the road that leads to the airport in the city despite intense security put in place this week ahead of the visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to the city. Singh will be in Srinagar on Wednesday and Thursday to hold talks over Kashmir and review security in India's most militarised region. Unprecedented security has been deployed for the past two days in the city that already has thousands of soldiers, part of the half a million troops deployed across the state. Residents are being frisked, cars being stopped and patrols intensified.