Two cane bombs found in Bhagalpur village, two held

BHAGALPUR: A day after a 7-year-old boy was killed in a tiffin bomb blast at Nathnagar, two live cane bombs were recovered from the agriculture field at Saidpur village under Jagdishpur police station area on Tuesday.
City SP Swarna Prabhat said two persons have been detained in connection with the recovery of bombs. “We got the live bombs diffused. Dog squad has been pressed into service.Door-to-door search is being conducted in the localities where such incidents have occurred recently,” he said.
This is the fourth instance of bombs found in secluded areas in the district in recent weeks.
Earlier on December 9, a 40-year-old man died when a bomb exploded near a trash adjacent to Nathnagar railway station. The second incident took place on December 11, in which two schoolchildren received injuries in a canister bomb blast at Momin Tola. On Monday, a 7-year-old boy died in a tiffin bomb blast in Nathnagar.