Bhagalpur: A seven-year-old boy was killed when a suspected ‘tiffin bomb’ went off close to a Sufi shrine in Bhagalpur on Monday. The blast took place near Maqdoom Shah Dargah in Nathnanagar police station area of the district when Amrit Das, resident of a locality closeby, fiddled with one of the many tiffin boxes kept outside the shrine.
According to Nathnagar inspector Mohd Sajjad Hussain, the boy was rushed to a hospital where he succumbed to injuries. Bomb disposal squad has been brought in to inspect the other abandoned tiffin boxes lying outside the dargah, the inspector said.
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The incident has triggered tension in the communally sensitive Nathnagar area, where three children were injured when a crude bomb went off in Momin Tola area two days back and a ragpicker was killed in an explosion close to a railway track.
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