Boy injured in Kashmir as tear gas shell explodes in hand

A boy was injured when an unexploded tear smoke shell he was fiddling with went off in Sopore town of north Kashmir today, police said.
   
The shell exploded in the hand of the boy, identified as Yawseef Ahmad Peer (8), a resident of Badamibagh, 58 km from here, police said.
    
He was hospitalised.
    
Sopore town of north Kashmir witnessed clashes between people and law enforcing agencies for the past four days in which dozens of tear smoke shells were fired.
    
Meanwhile, security forces recovered a live hand-grenade on a road in Kupwara district.
    
Police and troops of 28 Rashtriya Rifles, while patrolling in Gujjarpati, 139 km from here, found the hand-grenade on the road, police said.
    
The explosive device was defused by the bomb disposal squad, they said.