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1 dead, 6 injured in a mysterious blast in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district
2021-09-17
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Girl dead, five family members injured in mysterious blast in north Kashmir's Handwara
A 17-year-old girl died while five other members of her family were maimed in a mysterious blast in Tarathpora Ramhall area of Handwara in north Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
’s Kupwara district on Thursday.

Quoting official sources, news agency GNS reported that the blast occurred in the house of Ghulam Mohammad Wani, killing his teenager daughter Shabnum Bano on the spot while five other members of the family were maimed who were shifted to hospital.

The injured have been identified as Ghulam Mohammad Wani, 45, son of Abdul Razzaq Wani, Raja Begum, 38, wife of Ghulam Mohammed Wani, Razzaq's wife Janti Begum 70, Rifat, 17, daughter of Ghulam Mohammed Wani and Mukhti Begum, 34.

It is said that some members of the family are dealing with scrap and might have brought home the explosive with the trash.

A police officer told GNS that nature of the blast is being investigated adding "it seems there is no militancy-related angle to it."
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