Ghaziabad Police have recovered a stock of detonators from a scrap store after an explosion rocked Prem Nagar locality of loni town in this district, police said on Monday.
The scrap store belonged to Ram Prakash whose two sons — Rinku (13) and Shivam (9) — were critically injured on Sunday when the explosion occurred while they were sorting scrap. The two were rushed to Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital in Delhi for treatment.
Ram Prakash told police he bought 21 bags of scrap from Mundka in Delhi on Saturday. Of these, one bag contained 700 detonators, used for conducting explosions in mines.
“We have detained the scrap trader and informed the Intelligence Bureau. A case under the Explosives
Act has been registered,” said police officer Gorakh
Nath Yadav.