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Son killed, mother wounded in accidental blast in Indian-controlled Kashmir

Xinhua, September 4, 2015 Adjust font size:

A 12- year-old boy was killed and his mother wounded Friday when a grenade accidentally went off in Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said.

The blast took place at Ladoora village of Rafiabad in Baramulla district, about 70 km northwest of Srinagar city, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir. According to police the boy had found the grenade near a gunfight site in his locality and was fiddling with it, which caused its blast.

"Today a mother-son duo were wounded after a live grenade went off in village Ladoora," a police official posted in Baramulla said. "Both of them were immediately rushed to hospital in Baramulla, where the son succumbed to his wounds and his mother is under treatment."

On Wednesday an Indian military trooper and a militant were killed, while as another trooper was wounded in a fierce gunfight in the village.

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

Locals alleged military and police left the village after Wednesday's gunfight with out sanitizing the area.

"Army used heavy explosive devices and grenades to damage the house from where the militant was targeting them but after killing the militant, they left the area with out sanitizing it," Ghulam Mohammed , a local said.

"Had they fully carried out the sanitization, the boy wouldn't have come into contact with the grenade."

A senior police officer Gareeb Das told a local newspaper after every gunfight police and military sanitizes the site for explosives.

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 guerrilla 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