Low-intensity explosion near railway track in Sant Kabir Nagar, UP; Nepali citizen injured

A person was injured when a low-intensity crude bomb exploded near a railway track in Khalilabad town in Sant Kabir Nagar, UP on Tuesday morning, police said.

Raju Thapa, who hails from Nepal, was collecting trash lying near the railway track when a low-intensity crude bomb exploded, SP Hiralal said.

A police team reached the spot and found three more live bombs in the bag in which Thapa had collected the waste, the SP said.

He said that the bombs look like low-intensity “sutli bombs” or crude bombs.

The injured has been rushed to a hospital and police are probing the matter.

(With PTI Inputs)