Another low-intensity blast near Rohini triggers scare; one injured

A low-intensity explosion near a public park in Prashant Vihar, northwest Delhi on Thursday injured a 25-yearold man and triggered a security scare, less than a kilometre from the site of a similar blast reported last month, police officers said.

- Hemani Bhandari

Investigators said they are trying to identify the motive and those responsible for the explosion, which occurred at around 11.30am near a busy market and several schools.

The Delhi Police, joined by the bomb disposal squad, the National Investigation Agency, the National Security Guard, and forensics experts, reached the site to examine evidence. They recovered a "white powder" residue, similar to the substance found at the site of an earlier blast on October 20 near CRPF School, just a block away.

Investigators probing the present case say that the two blasts are similar, as the material used to make the explosive unit "appeared" to be the same.

"In the October blast too, a similar white powder residue was recovered from the spot. In this blast as well, white powder has been lifted by forensics team," a senior police officer said, asking not to be named.