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Mysterious blast kills one, wounds 2 in Indian-controlled Kashmir

Xinhua, August 5, 2015 Adjust font size:

A 10- year-old boy was killed, and two others wounded Wednesday when an explosive device accidentally went off in Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said.

The blast took place in village Baba Salina-Manasbal of Ganderbal district, about 18 km north of Srinagar city, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir. "Today a boy was killed and two other children were wounded after some explosive device went off in a village in Ganderbal," a police spokesman said. "The wounded children were immediately rushed to a hospital in Srinagar."

Police said they were investigating how the children came in contact with the explosive device.

"Preliminary investigation revealed the boys had found the device in a garbage dump and were fiddling with it, which resulted in its blast," the spokesman said.

During the past more than two decades of ongoing armed insurgency in Indian-controlled Kashmir, many people were killed or left crippled after accidentally fiddling with the explosives or stepping upon the land mines planted blindly in the region particularly along line-of-control (LoC).

A guerilla war is also going on between militants and Indian troops stationed in the region since 1989. The gunfight between militants and Indian troopers in Indian-controlled Kashmir takes place intermittently. Endi