Three people died and 11 were hurt in a blast at a scrap dealer’s shop in Kargil district of Ladakh on Friday, according to officials, news agency PTI reported. They said that something strange blew up in a shop in Drass in the Kabadi Nallah area. Three people, one of them not from the area, lost their lives.
The injured individuals were transported to a hospital, according to the officials. Police have officially registered a case.
“In total three people were killed, while nine others were injured in the blast. I have instructed the officials to provide the best possible treatment to the injured,” DC (Kargil) Shrikant Balasaheb Suse had stated earlier.
UPDATE | VIDEO: “In total three people were killed, while nine others were injured in the blast. I have instructed the officials to provide the best possible treatment to the injured,” says DC (Kargil) Shrikant Balasaheb Suse on blast at a scrap dealer’s shop. pic.twitter.com/hwWn9SIixX
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In a similar incident, three people were killed and seven others injured in a blast at a hotel in Afghanistan’s southeast Khost province earlier this month, said the province’s media office, reported Reuters. According to the report quoting Khost media office, among the deceased were people from Pakistan’s Waziristan region which is just over the border and where for years various militant groups have operated.
Earlier this month, Mumbai Police had received a threat call from a person threatening of “serial bomb blasts” in local trains. Soon after the call, the police arrested a 25-year-old man from the Juhu area for allegedly making the threat call. A police official while talking to the news agency PTI had stated that the man is suspected to have made the call while he was in an inebriated state. The Police control room received a call this morning during which the caller claimed that a bomb was planted inside a local train in Mumbai. The caller further warned that ‘serial bomb blasts’ were going to take place.