Boys find explosive near encounter site, get injured in blast

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.