Miscreants hurled a bomb at a youth injuring him critically near the Haridas Mutt under the Sea Beach police station in Puri on Wednesday.
The incident occurred at around 7 pm when Rajendra Narayan Nayak of the Baliapanda slum was returning home by a two-wheeler along with a friend. An unidentified bike-borne youth hurled the bomb and fled, sources said.
Nayak was first rushed to the District Headquarters Hospital here with critical injury in his leg and later shifted to the SCB Medical College Hospital, Cuttack. The victim’s condition was stated to be critical, sources said.
Police are investigating the incident. Police personnel were deployed at the accident site to avoid any further untoward incidents. Senior police officials are supervising the investigation. The reason of the attack and details about the miscreants were yet to be ascertained.