A robust blast has occurred at a hamlet near the India-Pakistan border in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district, creating an enormous crater in the bottom and triggering concern among the many locals, officers mentioned on Thursday.
IMAGE: A search operation underway on the location of the blast in Kathua. Photograph: ANI on Twitter
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 flawed website near the border, they mentioned.
Information in regards to the explosion was acquired round 9.30 pm on Wednesday, SSP Kathua Shivdeep Singh Jamwal instructed PTI.
“We have additionally launched a search operation Thursday morning. The bomb squad has collected the samples from the positioning and despatched them for checks,” 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 pm on Wednesday we heard an explosion. I knowledgeable the publish incharge who additionally confirmed the sound of the blast.”
The blast website was positioned after one-and-half hours, he mentioned, including {that a} huge crater was discovered in an agriculture area.
