A child was on Friday injured in a landmine explosion at Devigarh near the India-Pakistan border, officials said.
Ten-year-old Shivan Kumar picked up an anti-personnel mine from an agricultural field near the border at Devigarh in Jammu district, 45 km from Jammu, they said.
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He was playing with the mine when it exploded and critically injured him, they said adding Kumar had been hospitalised.
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