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2 killed in grenade blast at Digboi; 2nd incident in a week
According to the information available, two people on a motorcycle lobbed a grenade inside a shop at Tingrai Bazaar area
Two persons were killed and two others sustained injuries in a grenade blast at a market in Digboi of Tinsukia district of Assam on Friday.
According to district officials, the incident took place around 1pm when two men on a motorcycle allegedly lobbed a grenade into a hardware shop at Tingrai Bazaar area.
“The incident has claimed the lives of Sanjit Singh and Surajit Talukdar while two others Monjit Das and Ghanashyam Agarwala are injured. Our investigations are on,” said Nimbalkar Vaibhav, the district superintendent of police.
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While Singh was a customer at the shop, Surajit Talukdar was an employee at the store. The two injured have been shifted to hospital where they are undergoing treatment.
“I have instructed the deputy inspector general (DIG) of police of the range to conduct an investigation and bring those responsible for this incident to book,” Chief Minister Himata Biswa Sarma said in Guwahati.
He later tweeted that the union home minister Amit Shah had phoned him and inquired about the incident.
Friday’s incident comes three days after a 12-year-old boy was killed when a grenade, which he found lying on the roadside, went off in Kotha Adarsha Gaon in Tinsukia district.
