Mumbai-Pune: Three persons, including a constable, were injured when an explosive device kept in a motorcycle in the parking lot of a police station went off here on Thursday, officials said.
It was a “low intensity” blast and police is probing the case keeping in mind “all possibilities”, including a terror angle, Pune police commissioner Satish Mathur said.
“We are examining all possibilities,” he said when asked if police suspected it to be a terror attack.
Ball bearings and nails have been recovered from the spot and sent for forensic examination, Mr Mathur said, adding the explosive use in the blast was yet to be identified.
Only one of the injured persons needed to be hospitalised, he added. The Pharaskhana police station is situated in the vicinity of the famous Dagdusheth Ganesh temple, which is said to be on the terrorists’ radar for quite some time.
A suspected Indian Mujahideen operative Qateel Siddiqui, named in three terror cases, was alleged to have made an abortive attempt to bomb the Dagdusheth temple in 2010. He was was strangled to death in high-security Yerawada Central Jail here in June 2012.
