A soldier was killed and five others wounded when explosives seized from a militant hideout went off accidentally in their camp in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Thursday morning.
Police said that a grenade accidentally exploded in counter-insurgency Rashtriya Rifles camp in north Kashmir Handwara pocket wounding six soldiers.The wounded soldiers were immediately evacuated to hospital where one of them succumbed to injuries.
Sources said the camp was being cleaned when the explosive went off. Mishandling of explosives or fiddling with unexploded shells has cost dozens of lives including those of civilians in insurgency-hit Kashmir during the past 22 years. Most of the accidents have occurred in border areas or at the sites of encounters between security forces and militants.