Blast in Meerut scrap-yard; five killed, 10 injured
Blast in Meerut scrap-yard; five killed, 10 injured
The nature of the blast in not known yet. Details are awaited.

New Delhi: At least five people were killed when a mortar shell exploded in a waste dump in Ahmednagar area in Uttar Pradesh town of Meerut, 72 km from Delhi.

Sources say the blast took place in a scrap-dealer's shop in Meerut’s crowded Fatehpur locality. At least 10 people are reported to have been injured in the blast that took place at 1600 hrs .

"This was a scrap blast. The junk dealers had taken the scrap from Meerut Cantonment and while taking out the brass from a live shell, it exploded," SSP Meerut Raghuvir Lal tells CNN-IBN.

Denying it was a terror attack, the SSP said it was an unexploded army mortar shell at a waste dump that exploded when the labourers were rummaging through the waste.

Police have been rushed to the spot. DIG (Meerut) P K Ramamurthy told PTI he feared the toll may go up.

(Details are awaited)

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