Chandigarh, Oct. 7 -- The Chandigarh police have registered an FIR after an 11-year-old boy died and another was critically injured in an explosion caused by a gunpowder-like substance in Daria village.

Police have booked an unidentified shopkeeper from Ramgarh (Haryana) on charges of selling inflammable material to the minors.

According to the police, the deceased was a Class-7 student of a government school in Sector 28 and a resident of Daria village. In his statement to the police, the victim's father said that on October 1, his son and another boy from the neighbourhood were grinding and mixing a gunpowder-like substance on the terrace, when the material suddenly caught fire, triggering a massive explosion.

Hearing the explosion, ...