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Quake may have shifted mines along LoC: NGO

Shujaat Bukhari

SRINAGAR: The earthquake that hit the Kashmir region on October 8 may have shifted thousands of mines along the Line of Control, Global Green Peace (GGP), a non-government organisation, said on Saturday.

Shafat Hussain, a member of the GGP, said: "We are very much concerned as thousands of mines have been planted by the armies of India and Pakistan along the LoC in recent years.

These mines are out there and threatening to take human lives."

The spokesman of the Army's 15 Corps headquarters, Lt. Col. V.K. Batra, said the mines have been planted along the LoC and Army posts some 58 years ago and no civilian area is involved.

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