A middle-aged man, identified as Usman Biswas, was killed while manufacturing crude bombs in West Bengal’s border district of Murshidabad, barely 24 hours after a woman died in a similar incident in the same district, police said today.
The explosion took place late last night at Chhatiani village under Raninagar police station limits. Biswas died on the spot under a bamboo grove.
The incident took a dramatic turn as Biswas, who had left home last evening after being summoned by three friends on a motorcycle, went missing after the blast shook the area.
Police said the explosion triggered panic in the locality, prompting an immediate response from Raninagar police. Several crude bombs and bloodstained bamboo were recovered from the site, though one bomb was found nearby.
After Biswas’s wife, Samira Bibi, reported him missing, police launched a search. One suspect, identified as Waz Karim, was arrested and confessed that Biswas’s body had been buried in a nearby bush. The body was unearthed this morning.
SDPO of Beldanga, Uttam Garai, confirmed that Biswas was killed in the blast and that his associates attempted to conceal the crime by burying the body. Police said more suspects are being traced.
Yesterday, a 38-year-old woman, Siddhatun Khatoon, was killed in a massive explosion while making crude bombs at her home in Nischintapur village under Domkal block of Murshidabad district.
