Three persons of a family, including a baby, were injured in a bomb blast on Wednesday at the Dhobakhal Basti under the Sea beach police station here.
According to reports, Syamal Das (45), a garbage collector, lives with his family at the Dhobakhal Basti. As usual, while he was segregating the garbage collected since morning, a tin box exploded injuring him, his daughter Mamata (19) and a baby granddaughter.
locals rushed them to the District Headquarters Hospital here. The palm of Syamal was critically damaged while the other two also sustained burn injuries.
It was suspected that a country bomb was kept in the small tin box. Syamal told police that he had collected the box from the Chhaitana area along with other garbage. Police registered a case and began investigation into the incident.