Underground blast injures 5

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.

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.