India: Bathinda twin blasts, bomb disposal teams struggle with explosive residue cleanup


Two minor blasts take place during cleanup drive in Jeeda village; none hurt; a 19-year-old radicalised law student, Gurpreet Singh, was booked on Thursday for assembling high-intensity explosives.

Four days after twin blasts rocked a house at Bathinda’s Jeeda village, leaving a father-son duo severely injured, the bomb disposal squad is facing an uphill task in removing residues of the unidentified explosive materials from the site.

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Source: Hindustan Times News


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