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14 May

West Bengal teen dies in tiffin bomb explosion

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A 17-year-old boy died in a steel tiffin box explosion near Kolkata on Saturday. Sheikh Sahil was seriously injured in an explosion when he was trying to open a tiffin field that his grandfather, a rag-picker, had collected from Rahara police station area of North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. He was taken to a government medical facility in Barrackpore, about 30 km from Kolkata. However, he died on impact. Abdul Hamid, Sahil's grandfather, said he picked up the metal tiffin pot and added it inside their house. He also proved that he informed his grandson Sahil to open…

Explosion in Ludhiana court leaves one dead, six injured

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A man was killed and five others injured in a blast at the district courts complex here on Thursday. Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi said no one shall be allowed to disturb the hard earned peace of Punjab. He has announced free treatment for all five persons injured in a blast that took place in gents toilet on second floor of District Courts Complex. The blast reportedly took place at 12:22 pm inside a bathroom on the second floor of the building. The explosion damaged the walls of the bathroom and ripped through a section of the building, besides…

Dhaka blast: Police rule out foul play and suspect leak gas

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The boom was so powerful that it shattered the windows of nearly a dozen nearby buildings. According to Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Shafiqul Islam, the blast damaged seven surrounding buildings and two passenger buses, killing seven people and injuring 400 others, 50 of whom were gravely injured. The severly injured were taken to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital and the Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery in Dhaka.The Dhaka Community Hospital treated around 300 patients, according to AZM Rahmatullah Shabuj, the hospital's outdoor in charge, who added that the victims had largely cuts on their bodies or…