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A strong blast has occurred at a hamlet near the India-Pakistan border in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district, creating an enormous crater in the ground and triggering concern among the many locals, officers mentioned on Thursday.
Sources mentioned it seems to be an IED blast. It is suspected that the IED may need been carried by a drone and dropped on the fallacious web site near the border, they mentioned.
Information concerning the explosion was obtained round 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, SSP Kathua Shivdeep Singh Jamwal instructed PTI.
“We have also launched a search operation Thursday morning. The bomb squad has collected the samples from the site and sent them for tests,” the SSP mentioned.
Block Development Committee (BDC) chairman Ram Lal Kaliya, a resident of Saniyal village which is simply 300 metres from the border publish, mentioned, “Around 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday we heard an explosion. I informed the post in charge who also confirmed the sound of the blast.” The blast web site was situated after one-and-half hours, he mentioned, including {that a} large crater was discovered in an agriculture area.
