Hassan (Karnataka): In little over a month after the pressure cooker blast in an auto in Mangaluru where two persons were injured, in a nearly similar incident a shop owner lost all the five fingers of his right hand after a mixer-grinder exploded inside his shop at KR Puram Nagar here at Hassan in Karnataka on Monday. Police is trying to find out the probable reason behind the blast.
According to the police the incident happened at 7.30 pm on Monday evening when a customer came to the shop to return the mixer-grinder telling that the parcel was wrongly delivered at his address. Interrogating the other employees of the shop police have come to know that two day ago a parcel came to the private courier service shop and it was delivered to the address mentioned on the top.
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On Monday evening a person came to the shop and asked the owner to take it back as the parcel didn’t come from the proper address. “When the shop owner took the mixer-grinder and was trying to place in on the shelf, the blast occurred. The shop was also damaged because of the blast,” the officer said. The owner identified as Sashi was immediately rushed to a private hospital and his condition is reported to be stable.
Speaking on the incident Hassan SP Hariram Shankar said, “The victim is out of danger. The mixi blade has hit his fingers. A FSL (Forensic Science and Laboratory) team has been informed and once they arrive then they will begin their probe. We have received information from where the courier had arrived”.
When asked whether there was any similarity with the Mangaluru pressure cooker blast, the senior police officer said, “There is no reason to speculate. We have the information and we will follow the information to reach the people responsible for it. We are waiting for the FSL report and once it comes we will start our probe”.
The incident became even more important because a month before there was a mysterious explosion in a moving auto Kankanady police station limits in Karnataka. After investigation After investigation Karnataka police said that the blast is not accidental but an ‘ACT OF TERROR’ with intention to cause serious damage. Later NIA took charge of the investigation.
