Two injured in explosion at Army's Ammunition Depot

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Two injured in explosion at army's ammunition depot
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Zulfikar Majid, DH News Service, Srinagar, Jan 16 2018, 17:51 IST

Two porters were injured in an accidental explosion at one of the biggest ammunition depot of army in south Kashmir's Anantnag district on Tuesday.

Reports said two labourers were injured in the explosion at army's 21 Field Ammunition Depot (FAD) at Khundroo, Anantnag, 70 kms from here. The cause of the explosion was not immediately known.

Pertinently, several people were killed while over 50 were injured when the same ammunition depot, one of the biggest in Kashmir, caught fire in August 2007. Thousands of civilian had to be evacuated then and it took army several weeks to clear the area of unexploded shells.

The economy of the area took a serious hit since the ammunition depot went ablaze as people are reluctant to visit fields and orchards, fearing unexploded shells might blast. The residents says some of the shells which had landed deep into the soil in 2007 incident get up with soil erosion. They are scattered in paddy fields and orchards, they complain.

In 2016, army had declared that all its ammunition depots across the state were safe, after J&K Legislative Assembly Speaker asked the Jammu and Kashmir government to conduct safety audit of all ordnance depots.

The direction was passed after two army officers and 15 Defence Security Corps jawans were killed in a fire incident at the central ammunition depot in Pulgaon, near Nagpur in Maharashtra on 31 May 2016.

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At least two porters were injured on Tuesday in an explosion in Anantnag district’s Kundroo, which houses one of the biggest ordnance depots of the Indian Army in Jammu and Kashmir.

Police said that the explosion was accidental and have not identified the exact spot of the incident.

“Accidental explosion in Kundroo, Anantnag. Two injured porters being treated,” Jammu and Kashmir police said in a tweet.

The police said that the information was preliminary as “more details are being collected”.

Station house officer of the area Javaid Ahmad said they were verifying the incident.

“Nothing is clear yet,” he added.

Porters mostly work with the army in the region.

The Kundroo ammunition depot of the army witnessed a huge fire that killed at least 18 labourers and destroyed a large amount of ammunition in 2007.

 

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Ammo dump blast at army camp kills 1, injures 7

The blast occurred around 3.30 pm when a team from Ordnance Factory was inspecting the ammunition as a routine procedure, police officials of the district said
Updated: May 15, 2018 23:19 IST
Hindustan Times, Hoshiarpur

Blast took place at ammunition dump of Indian Army’s base camp in Unchi Bassi near Dasuya on Jalandhar-Pathankot highway.(PTI Representative Photo)

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An explosion in the ammunition dump of Indian Army’s base camp in Unchi Bassi near Dasuya on Jalandhar-Pathankot highway on Tuesday killed a technician and injuring at least seven other members of the inspecting team from Ordnance Factories Jabalpur.

The blast occurred around 3.30 pm when a team from Ordnance Factory was inspecting the ammunition as a routine procedure, police officials of the district said.

The deceased has been identified as Ajay Pandey, a technician, who is said to be from Madhya Pradesh. His body has been kept in the Dasuya civil hospital mortuary. As per information, while nine who were injured include a Subedar rank Army official whereas rests were non-commissioned officers.

Injured Anurag, Malkan Praj- apat and Baljinder Singh were ru- shed to Dasuya civil hospital whereas Parvendra Singh and Kuldip Singh were shifted to Capitol hospital in Jalandhar, where they are in serious condition.

Subedar Davinder Singh, who brought the body to the civil hospital in Dasuya said that two more injured had been admitted to military hospital Pathankot.

No army officer was available for comments. The public relation wing of the camp, feigned ignorance about the incident. The army men who were attending on the injured refused to talk to the media. Defence spokesperson at Chandigarh, Anil Gour, when contacted, expressed helplessness in giving any details pertaining to the accident.

Senior superintendent of police, Hoshiapur, J Elanchazhian too said he had no official word from any of the army officials regarding the incident .

“What we have gathered is that a team from the Ordnance factory was on an annual inspection since about a week. As the blast took place inside the army camp, the police were neither called on the spot nor any details were shared with us”, he said.

 

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The Minister of State for Development of North Eastern Region (I/C), Prime Minister’s Office, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr. Jitendra Singh receiving a memorandum from a delegation of Army Ordnance employees, in New Delhi on May 17, 2018.