Three people, including a policeman, were injured in a blast during cleaning of the malkhana of Khutar police station in Shahjahanpur on Monday afternoon.
Superintendent of Police Ashok Kumar Meena disclosed before the local media persons on Monday that the work of cleaning was going on in the malkhana of Khutar police station in the afternoon when there was a sudden explosion in the malkhana due to which retired constable Jaipal Singh, constable Shailendra Shukla and watchman Latif, who were involved in the cleaning exercise, were injured.
He said that a lot of articles were kept in the malkhana. The SP said that the cause of the blast was yet to be ascertained and an inquiry had been ordered.
Meena said that the injured Shailendra Shukla, Jaipal Singh and watchman Latif had been admitted to the hospital where they were being treated.
Meanwhile, some unidentified miscreants barged into a house and shot dead a woman in a village under Chitbadagaon police station of Ballia district in the early hours of Monday.
Senior police officers reached the spot as soon as the incident was reported.
Police said that Gudiya Yadav (24) was shot dead by unidentified miscreants in the early hours of Monday in Rampur Chit village under Chitbadagaon police station.
The woman was cleaning the courtyard at the time of the incident.
The family members who reached there after hearing the sound of the gunshot saw three people running out of the back door. The girl was rushed to the district hospital, where doctors pronounced her dead.
Superintendent of Police S Anand said that the woman was shot in the head. He said that on the complaint of the woman’s father, Harendra Yadav, a murder case had been registered against three unknown people.
The motive behind the killing is not yet clear and three teams have been formed to investigate the case.