Death toll in Kolkata blast reaches two as another injured dies in hospital
Kolkata, Oct 14 (IBNS): A middle aged fruit vendor, who was critically injured in a socket bomb explosion that rocked Nagerbazar area in Kolkata's neighbourhood south Dumdum on Oct 2, died in a city hospital on Saturday late night, taking the death toll in the incident to two, reports said.
According to reports, nearly 40-year-old fruit-seller Ajit Halder, who was a resident of Magrahat in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, had sustained severe injuries in his back, waist and abdomen, and he died at around 10 pm. on Saturday at R.G.Kar Medical College and Hospital in north Kolkata, 11 days after the explosion occurred.
State Criminal Investigation Department (CID) officials engaged in the probe said that Ajit Halder was one of the prime witnesses of the explosion.
"Ajit Halder's primary statement helped us in reconstructing the incident as the socket bomb went off beside his fruit stall and his position was the closest to the bomb during the explosion," a CID official told IBNS.
Earlier on Oct 2 morning, a socket bomb exploded near a sweet shop at Nagerbazar Kajipara area in South Dumdum, leaving several persons seriously hurt.
An eight-year-old boy- Bibhas Ghosh, who was among the injured, was declared dead later in SSKM hospital while his mother, Sita Ghosh, is still undergoing treatment at the same state run hospital.
A police official said that few other persons, who were injured in the explosion, are still undergoing treatment at different state run and private hospitals in the city.
State CID and local police are investigating the matter parallelly while none has been arrested in connection with the explosion so far.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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