A powerful blast ripped apart a scrap dealer’s premises in Agra claiming the lives of two sons of the dealer while his wife was critically injured on Thursday afternoon. The police later claimed that blast occurred in some military scrap containing unexploded grenade. Further investigations are on in the matter.
As per reports, panic gripped the busy Baldevnagar market of Tajganj area when a powerful explosion took place in the premises of scrap dealer Sohbaran Singh on Thursday afternoon. The blast was so powerful that Ram Niwas and Chotu - both sons of Singh died on the spot while his wife Shanti was critically injured.
Singh later told the police that he had purchased some scrap from the nearby Cantonment area which could have possibly contained some untriggered explosive. He said that as his son tried to draw out a metal clip from the scrap, it went off claiming the lives of both his sons. His wife is still battling for her life. A case was later registered in the matter.
Meanwhile in Pratapgarh, four siblings were killed in a tragic road mishap on Thursday morning.
As per reports, a family was going for darshan at Kudhedham temple in Kaushambi when their Bolero collided head-on with a truck on the Allahabad-lucknow highway near Miya Ka Purwa of Kunda police circle. Sarita (14), her sister Priya (8), brother Prince (6) and sister Prachi (2) died on the spot while their father Gulab Chandra, and seven other kin and the driver were critically injured. They were taken to the District Hospital but latter referred to Medical College in Allahabad. A case was registered in this regard but the truck driver managed to abscond.