Published on Sep 8, 2020
By EMN
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Dimapur, Sep. 9 (EMN): Two persons were killed and at least three others injured in a freak bomb blast that occurred at Burma Camp in Dimapur on Tuesday.
According to Dimapur police, the tragic incident took place when the victim, a metal scrap collector, was ‘handling a vintage bomb’, which he had found, with a hammer.
In the process, the explosive item went off, killing the person handling it. Later on in the evening, a 2-year-old infant who was also injured, succumbed to the wound at a hospital.