It is exploding bombs in Bengal. Barely four days after the Bhupatinagar blast that left three persons dead and an unspecified number of victims injured three persons including a woman and two children were severely injured at Ramnagar area of Basirhat sub-division in North 24 Parganas district some 50 miles north of Kolkata.
The incident happened on Tuesday forenoon when a child brought home a round-shaped object taking it to be a ball … the ball-like object that the child found in the fields exploded inside the kitchen of his house injuring another child and his mother, sources said. All have been admitted to the Basirhat district hospital, police said.
The incident occurred four days after the blast at Bhupatinagar in East Midnpore district where a Trinamooll Congress leader’s house literally caved in after a stockpile of explosive went off while the victims were allegedly making bombs. While Bengal Opposition Leader Suvendu Adhikari wrote to Union Home Minister Amit Shah seeking an NIA investigation into the Bhupatinagar incident, a Public Interest Litigation petition too was filed in Calcutta High Court demanding a similar order.
About a dozen people have lost their lives and tens of them have received grave injuries in bomb blasts and gun fights in the past little more than a month in Bengal. Such incidents were likely to go up at next year’s panchayat elections draw nearer, experts say.
