Explosion Injures Three in Mosque Demolition in Kupwara

Three individuals, including a 10-year-old boy, were injured in an explosion in Kupwara, Jammu and Kashmir, during the demolition of an old mosque. The cause is unknown, and the injured have been hospitalized.

An explosion that injured three people, including a 10-year-old boy, disrupted a mosque demolition in the Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday.

The incident occurred in the Langate area when the mosque management committee was in the process of tearing down an old mosque to build a new one.

Authorities rushed the injured—Mudasir Ahmad Mir, Ghulam Ahmad Tantray, and young D A Lone—to Langate's sub-district hospital, with Mir later transferred to the Government Medical College hospital in Handwara. The explosion's cause remains under investigation.

(With inputs from agencies.)