Blast in ‘shell like object’ near scrap-merchant home in Kutch, 3 dead, 6 injured

Bhuj

Three including two boys and a minor girl were killed while six others got injured in a blast that took place this evening near the house of a scarp merchant in Mota Dinara village under Khavda police station of the bordering Kutch district of Gujarat, West Kutch Superintendent of Police D N Patel said.

The boys were trying to break a shell like thing collected or purchased by the scrap merchant Md. Gani in the village which was located close to the Pakistan border. It suddenly exploded killing the 18 year old son and 13 year old daughter of the merchant and a 19 year old boy from the neighbourhood, he said.

The six injured have been admitted to the G K general hospital in Bhuj.

‘Prima facie it seems that the shell with some unused explosives was collected by the merchant from the BSF firing practice range in Khavda,the SP said adding efforts were on to nab the merchant for interrogation.

He, however, claimed that such shells were also recovered by police from Khavda area a few months ago.

– DeshGujarat