Ladakh: Two Persons Died And 10 People Injured in Blast
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Ladakh: Two Persons Died And 10 People Injured in Blast
Srinagar: Two people were killed and 10 others injured on Friday in a blast in Kargil’s Drass town.
Official sources said that a blast occurred at the scrap site in the Kabadi Nallah area of Drass town on Friday evening in which two people were killed and 10 others were injured.
“The injured have been shifted to a sub-district hospital in Drass town for treatment. A case has been registered in the incident and an investigation has been started to ascertain the actual cause of the explosion”, sources said.
Sources said that the blast mostly likely occurred when some scrap collectors/dealers fiddled with the scrap which could have resulted in some unexploded old shell going off.
The Union Home Minister has alerted the states of the country in the wake of the Indo-Pak War. The Telangana government and police, which were immediately alerted, took preemptive measures. Security has been tightened in Hyderabad.
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