Jammu, February 11 A 16-year-old boy was injured in an explosion, reportedly caused by a rusted landmine that had drifted into a stream in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, officials said.
Bilal Ahmad, a resident of Banpath village, was loading sand into a tractor at Battar Nallah when the blast occurred around 4:30 pm, they said.
Preliminary investigation suggested that the blast was caused by a landmine that had washed into the water body and detonated while the boy was working, leaving him injured, the officials said.
Locals rushed to the spot immediately after hearing the blast and shifted the injured boy to the district hospital for treatment, they said.
Police and other security personnel reached the site soon after the incident and cordoned off the area, the officials said, adding that a search operation was launched to check for the presence of any other unexploded devices in and around the stream.
