A file image of CRPF jawans standing guard during curfew outside Jamia Masjid in downtown Srinagar. (Photo: PTI)
Srinagar: Three 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 km from here, 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 which they had found in the field.
(With inputs from PTI)
First Published: March 5, 2017, 12:12 PM IST