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An eight-year-old boy was killed and nine people, including his mother, were injured in a low-intensity explosion in front of a multi-storey building in the Nagerbazar area in Kolkata’s northern suburbs on Tuesday, police said. “A child, who was severely injured in the blast, has died in hospital. A total of nine people are injured,” said Ananda Roy, Deputy commissioner of police, Barrackpore Commissionerate.
As per initial investigation, ammonium nitrate was used in carrying out the low-intensity blast outside the building, which also houses the office of South Dum Dum Municipality Chairman, Panchu Roy.
Roy, a Trinamool Congress leader claimed that he was the target of the blast. Reacting to the incident, Sujan Chakraborty, senior CPI(M) leader, tweeted: “They have made #Bengal synonym as hub of Arms & Explosives.
#EnoughIsEnough. Stop it please @MamataOfficial.”
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