Kashmir: Explosion in Sopore injures four children; probe begins

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 which they had found in the field.