Jammu and Kashmir: Low-intensity blast hits government school, Principal, non-teaching staff injured
India TV NewsA low-intensity blast occurred at a government school in Jammu and Kashmir's Doda district on Monday, leaving the principal and a staff member injured, officials said. According to reports, Principal Hoshyar Singh and Sharifa Begum, a non-teaching staff, were sitting in the staff room along with half a dozen teachers when an inverter battery exploded at their school in Shiva village here. "After receiving information, a police team rushed to the spot and found that two persons were injured and furniture had also caught fire," the Senior Superintendent of Police, Doda, Mohammad Shabir Khatana, said. A special team, including SP Ravinder Pal Singh, SDPO Tousif Ahmed Rishu and SI Sunil Parihar, has been constituted to investigate the matter, the SSP said.