India: Forensic team finds tail of mortar shell at Hazaribag explosion site


Hazaribag: Investigators probing the explosion that killed three people, including a couple, at Habibi Nagar found a mortar tail at the explosion site, sources said on Friday.

The powerful explosion rocked Habibinagar locality of Hazaribag district on Wednesday, with agencies now suspecting that the blast may not have been caused by a crude bomb, as it was initially thought. A joint team of the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) and state bomb disposal unit inspected the spot and recovered a tail unit of a mortar shell buried beneath the debris.

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Source: Times of India News


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