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| Live fuses cause panic in south Kashmir villages | | | Early Times Reporter
Srinagar | May 25
Recovery of more than a dozen live Bofors and other fuses in villages in south Kashmir has caused panic among the people, who found it difficult to work in their fields and orchards freely during the past one year.
The farmers have become very cautious after some villagers died when the unexploded shells went off accidentally, said Abdul Hamid, a government employee at Achabal in Anantnag district.
He said parents never allow their children to go in the fields alone, fearing they may touch any unexploded shell.
Hamid said some of the shells had been buried under mud while others are under grass. Nobody knows where and when an unexploded shell will went off.
The other villagers said though the Army Bomb Disposal Squads (BDS) airlifted from different parts of the country to detect and defuse the unexploded shells, still a large numbers of shells remained untraced.
The fuse had remained unexploded during the devastating fire in the ammunition depot at Khandroo in August last year, that left more than 20 people, mostly Army fire-fighters dead and scores injured.
About half a dozen civilians were also killed or wounded after they touched the unexploded shells in about a dozen villages.
The Army authorities pressed into service about 100 BDS, brought from different parts of the country, to defuse the unexploded shells in the affected villages before the residents were allowed to return to their homes after about a month.
During the past one week about a dozen live fuses were detected and destroyed by the BDS in Nowgam, Pahloo Shaguns and Khandroo villages without causing any damage. |
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