Child killed, 4 hurt as explosion rocks a house of victims of Rajouri terror attack

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JAMMU, JANUARY 2: A child was killed and four others including another child and three women were injured in a powerful explosion at one of the three houses attacked by militants on Sunday late evening at Upper Dangri in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir.

While it could not be immediately known whether it was a grenade or an IED, sources said that it appears to be an IED planted by militants so as to cause more casualties when police, security forces reach there. 

Additional Director General of Police, Jammu, Mukesh Singh, confirmed death of a child in the explosion, saying that another child was critical. 

Another suspected IED spotted which is being cleared, he said, adding that he along with Divisional Commissioner , Jammu, was reaching the spot.

Four people were killed and six others injured when militants attacked three houses at Upper Dangri in Rajouri district on Sunday evening.