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Underground blast injures 5

At least five civic workers were injured, three of them criticall... Read More
KOLKATA: At least five

civic workers

were injured, three of them critically, after they

sustained severe splinter injuries

in an

underground explosion

during the

repairing works of a water pipeline

at

BT Road in Belghoria

on Friday afternoon.

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Police, however, suspect the blast took place after a crude bomb hidden at least 7-8 feet below the ground exploded during the underground pipeline work. All were rushed to Kamarhati Sagar Dutta Medical College and Hospital and three of them - Kuddus Ali (36), Rakesh Seikh (30) and Mofikul Seikh (32) - were later shifted to RG Kar hospital.

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