J&K: 4 children injured in explosion in Sopore

Srinagar: Four children were injured on Sunday in an explosion in Sopore town of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, police said.

A group of children were playing in the fields at Pazalpora in Sopore town, 52 kms from Srinagar, when an explosion took place there, a police official said.

Four children were injured in the explosion, he said adding the injured have been taken to a hospital.

The official said preliminary investigations suggest that the children were fiddling with an explosive that they had found in the field.

PTI