Four children were injured in an explosion in a heap of garbage at Chhapegram village in Bijnore district, on Saturday. The incident took place in Nahtaur area when the children identified as Jikara (7), Asif (4), Rehbar (5) and Ali (2) were playing near a heap of garbage, on Saturday morning. All of them were rushed to the district hospital where
their condition was stated to be out of danger. local police who rushed to the spot claimed that prima facie the explosion appears to be caused by firecrackers thrown in the garbage, but they sent the ashes to laboratory to ascertain the explosive.
Four children also drowned in separate incidents reportedly from Bahraich and neighbouring Shravasti districts. In the first incident, Jamaluddin (12) and his friend Manish (12) drowned while they slipped and fell into Saryu river in Patarhiya village of Bahraich on Friday evening. In a similar incident, Chottu (5) and luvkush (7) drowned in Gilaul area of Shravasti while taking a bath, also on Friday evening. All the bodies have been fished out and sent for post-mortem examination.
Meanwhile, a criminal, who was absconding for the past 20 years and wanted in five murder cases, was arrested by the Special Task Force from Mainpuri district. Rajbhushan, carrying a reward of Rs 50,000, was arrested on a tip-off from Fardpur crossing at Bhogaon area of Mainpuri district, STF said on Saturday. The arrested criminal revealed that he was residing in
Nepal from 2000 to 2014 after which he came to India and was hiding at various places here. He was absconding since 1996.