Blast Inside School Campus in Kolkata, One Injured

Kolkata, West Bengal:  Atleast one person was injured in a blast inside a school campus in Kolkata this morning.

 

The blast happened inside the Assembly of God church school located at Dum Dum cantonment at around 9am.

 

According to reports, a black ball was spotted when the field was being cleared for a football tournament. Somebody picked up the ball and threw it to another student who couldn’t catch it. The ball struck a wall and exploded, injuring one former student who had come to see the tournament.

According to the police, crude explosives had been stuffed inside a ball, sealed with tape and probably hurled into the school compound by miscreants.

Investigations are on.

The injured ex-student has been rushed to the R.G. Kar Medical College Hospital. He had come to watch the tournament.

The school is one of a chain of Assembly of God Church Schools in West Bengal.