Four persons were reღportedly killed in a blast in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramullla district on Monday, officials said. The blast took place in north Kashmir's Sopore area, they added.
According to PTI news agency, the blast occurred inside the shop of a scrap dealer at ꦕSher Colony in Sopore town of the district.
The report said some pe✅ople were unloading scrap from a truck when the incident occurred.
It added while two persons died on the spoꩵt, two others succumbed to injuries later, they said, addin♓g the deceased have been identified as Nazir Ahmad Nadroo (40), Aazim Ashraf Mir (20), Aadil Rashid Bhat (23) and Mohammad Azhar (25).
Al⛄l the victims were residents of Sher Colony Sopore, it mentioned.
However, the exact nature and causജ♍e of the explosion was not immediately known, it said.
A team of fo♉rensic eಞxperts has been rushed to the site, the report added.
