Five killed, three injured in explosion in Meerut

Meerut (UP), Nov 8 (PTI) Five persons were killed and
three others injured Saturday when a mortar shell exploded in
a waste dump in Bengali Basti area here, police said ruling it
out as a terrorist act.


"Some ragpickers found an army mortar shell in the
scrap and were fiddling with it when it exploded," Senior
Superintendent of Police Raghuveer Lal said.

The five killed have been have been identified Omar
Dutt, 10, Nizamul Hasan, 12, Sudhiyan, 18, Razakh Ali, 16, and
17-year-old Musharraf.
Three other injured were admitted to hospital, he
said.

Police have seized other shells from the site located
in a slum where mostly Bangladeshi immigrants are residing.

Lal said it was an "accident" and not related to any
terror activities.

Police will, however, investigate as to how the
mortar shells landed in a garbage heap, officials said.