Five children were killed and more than half a dozen persons injured when a powerful explosion ripped through a slum area in Kareli, in Allahabad district, on Wednesday evening.
The injured have been hospitalised and the condition of six of them is said to be critical. The MHA has got a preliminary report from the UP government on the blast. The victims were mostly rag-pickers who lived in the slum area.
The explosion took place at a garbage heap at around 4 pm. Some residents claimed a bomb was “hurled by an unidentified person who fled immediately”. The police denied that a bomb had been hurled.