Once again an arms dealer was arrested from Malda with a number of pistols, magazines and cartridges, police said. Malda had of late become a transit point for arms and drug smuggling.
Anarul Haq a man from Murshidabad was arrested following a tip-off and 10 sophisticated pistols and magazines were recovered from him along with 50 rounds of cartridges, police said. He was being interrogated for further information.
A stockpile of bombs went off near Boplpur in Birbhum District leaving a person injured and the several cracks in the concrete house, sources said. Birbhum had of late earned notoriety on account of blasts.
While the local Trinamool leadership said it could be an oven that had gone off locals said an oven going off could never cause cracks in a concrete building. The locals said bombs stock-piled in the house went off when they were being removed from there. Elsewhere 7 people were injured at Naihati in North 24 Parganas when an illegal cracker-manufacturing unit caught fire, sources said.