Hundreds evacuated after massive fire at Indian arms depot

A fire broke out at the Indian army’s largest arms depot in Kashmir today, wounding at least 30 people, officials said, as shells exploded into the air and a massive plume of black smoke blanketed the Himalayan region.

Thousands of people from villages within a three mile radius were evacuated from the area around the Khandroo depot, some 43 miles south of Srinagar, the main city in India’s Jammu-Kashmir state, said local police chief Abdul Ghani Mir.