10-year-old boy, injured in explosion in Kashmir’s Shopian, dies

A 10-year-old boy died after being critically injured when an unexploded shell went off at the site of a gunfight on January 25 in Chaigund village in Shopian in Jammu and Kashmir.

A 10-year-old boy, who was injured after an unexploded shell went off at an encounter site in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian last week, succumbed in Srinagar on Thursday, police said.

Paramilitary soldiers stand guard during restrictions in Srinagar during a separatist-called shutdown to protest against the killing of two civilians in Shopian. (Waseem Andrabi / HT Photo)

Musharaf Faya was critically injured after an unexploded shell went off at the site of a gunfight on January 25 in Chaigund village in south Kashmir, a police official said.

He said the boy succumbed to his injuries in the early hours on Thursday at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Sher-e- Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Hospital, Soura.

The explosion took place when some people were clearing debris from a house where an encounter had taken place a day earlier.