A seven-year-old boy was killed after a crude bomb kept in a tiffin box exploded near Makhdoom Shah Dargah ghat around 11.30am on Monday, police said
This is third crude bomb explosion in the last one week in Bhagalpur’s Nathnagar. According to police, the incident took place when the boy found tiffin box comprising three steel containers from a garbage dump while playing. The bomb exploded as soon as the boy picked up the tiffin box; killing him on the spot.
Prima facie evidence suggests that miscreants kept the bomb at a secluded place to ensure police did not discover it during a search operation conducted during the Panchayat election. A bomb disposal squad team reached the spot to collect residues of the explosive for investigation and defused more bombs kept inside tiffin boxes. The nature of the explosives is yet to be ascertained, police said.
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Source: The Hindustan Times