Muzaffarpur explosion: Cops begin probe

PATNA

: Police are on the lookout for one

Subhash Kumar

following an explosion in a flat and subsequent recovery of a man’s body drenched in chemical in Balughat locality of Muzaffarpur town on Saturday evening.

Muzaffarpur

SSP

Jayant Kant said the body was cut into pieces and stuffed in a plastic container after being drenched in chemical. An FSL team visited the spot on Sunday and collected samples. The victim is yet to be identified, he added.

A fire tender was pressed into service to douse the flames after the explosion. The landlord,

Sunil Kumar Sharma

, told the police that he had given the two-room flat on rent to Subhash Kumar, who introduced himself as a resident of

Karpoori Gram

in

Samastipur

district. Subhash is absconding after the incident. Locals said the explosion was so powerful tremor was felt in a radius of 1km.

The SSP said, “The landlord had not done the police verification of the tenant. We are quizzing him too.”