The explosion took place at around 1.45 pm at Silikote, about 100 km from Srinagar on the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road, they said.
There are no reports of any casualties in the explosion so far, the sources said.
Army officials in Srinagar said they were collecting information about the incident.
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