India: One killed, 5 injured in explosion while making crude bombs in Bengal village


A man died and five others sustained injuries when some crude bombs which they were allegedly making went off on Monday night at Rameswarpur-Dakshinpara village in the Beldanga area of Bengal’s Murshidabad district, police said.

Local villagers told the police that Sheikh, a resident of Benadaha village, went to Rameswarpur with his associates on Monday to make what is locally known as ‘socket bomb’.

After the explosion, Sheikh’s associates left him at the spot and fled. “They were later found by the police and taken to hospital,” an officer from the Beldanga police station said on condition of anonymity.

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Source: The Hindustan Times