Bomb blasts by suspected criminals at a major hospital in Patna on Friday injured two hospital employees, spreading fresh fear in the Bihar capital just four days after blasts injured four children in the city. Seizures of bombs and explosives in two Bihar towns on Friday renewed concerns about public security in the state.
Four crude bombs were hurled on the campus of the Nalanda Medical College and Hospital allegedly by criminals, causing panic and sending a large crowd of people running off to safety. While the police are looking into the incident, they did not rule out links between the blasts and the recent laying off of 35 nurses who had got their jobs allegedly by submitting fake certificates. Ram Pravesh, one of the two hospital employees injured in the blasts, is said to have helped in the detection of the fraud. In another incident, a live bomb was found kept inside an ATM of the State Bank of India at the posh R-Block Square in Patna, close to the Assembly and residences of the chief minister and other ministers, on Friday. It was quickly defused by the bomb disposal squad. The police were clueless about the motives and the people behind this bomb. In Bihar’s southern town of Dehri-on-Sone, as many as 25,000 detonators were seized from a jeep at the site of an under-construction bridge on Friday.