OCCUPIED SRINAGAR: A young boy was killed and four others wounded Wednesday in Indian-held Kashmir when an "unknown object" they were playing with exploded, police said.

The children were playing in Shopian, a volatile district where Indian soldiers martyred two suspected freedom fighters in a gun battle on Tuesday, when the accident occurred.

"These children were fiddling with this unknown object which exploded in their hands," Shopian police superintendent Sandeep Choudhary told AFP. "One boy aged between seven and 11 died, and the four others are being treated at a hospital."—AFP