Two Home Guards killed, Seven injured in Assam blast

Posted on 12th Feb 2015 by mohit kumar

Guwahati, Feb 10 (IANS) Two home guards were killed and seven others injured Tuesday when a bomb went off accidentally at an Assam Police firing range in Golaghat district, an official said.

The incident took place at the Kalyani firing range in Deopahar near Numaligarh, a police spokesman said.

"The home guards personnel were undergoing training at the firing range. However, some of the trainees spotted a grenade-like object there and it exploded when they were examining it," he said.

Two were killed on the spot, while the injured were taken to a hospital.

Police were investigating how the grenade-like object came to be there.

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