West Bengal: Low intensity bomb goes off in school ground, one injured

Dum Dum (WB): A low-intensity bomb went off in a school ground here in North 24 Parganas district injuring one person, a top police official said.

Commissioner of Police, Barrackpore police commissionerate, Nirad Singh said while cleaning the playground of a missionary school where a match was to be played later in the day, a ball-like object wrapped in plastic was found by a local youth.

The object, which turned out to be a low-intensity bomb, exploded when he threw it, injuring the leg of 21-year-old Johnny Haldar, Singh said.

Haldar was taken to a hospital and investigation was on, Singh said.

Today being a holiday there was no student in the school premises and the match was scheduled to be played by outsiders in the school ground.