A crude bomb meant to maim and kill wild boars claimed one life and injured five others in a rural village in south Goa.
Police claimed on Thursday that 31-year-old Paplu Mulgund from Hubli in Karnataka was killed in the explosion, as he was trying to assemble the crude bomb using detonators at his one-room home in San Jose de Areal village, located 40 kms from Panaji.
Paplu’s wife and two children were injured and hospitalised to the Hospicio district hospital along with two other neighbours, who were also injured.
Deputy Inspector General of Police OP Mishra ruled out any terror angle to the blast.
Though the police did not recorded formal statements of those formal statements of those injured till late on Thursday.
A senior police official said that forensic examination showed that the bomb appeared similar to the locally assembled crude explosive devices, which are regularly used by poachers to kill wild boar and other wild game in Goa’s forests.
“Possession of the explosive with requisite permission is illegal and the deceased was in the process of making the bomb when the accident occurred,” police said, adding that Mulgund had just purchased the detonators and
dynamite from a source and was rigging together the contraption at home when the
blast occurred.