Boys find explosive near encounter site, get injured in blast

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Press Trust of India Srinagar
Last Updated : Jul 20 2017 | 8:07 PM IST
Two boys were today injured in a blast in a village in Pulwama district in Kashmir where an encounter had taken place on July 3 between three militants and security forces.
A group of boys while playing near the encounter site in Bamnloo village where they found some explosive substance and started fiddling with it, causing a blast, a police official said.
He said that two teenagers - Muzamil Ahmad and Umar Khan - who were injured in the blast were shifted to a hospital here for treatment.
Three militants were killed in a gunbattle with the security forces in the village on 3 July.

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First Published: Jul 20 2017 | 8:07 PM IST

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