Lucknow: Panic gripped a residential area of Uttar Pradesh's major city Allahabad on Thursday after three live crude bombs were recovered from a garbage trolley, within two days of a bomb blast in Varanasi, police said.
"Acting on a tip-off, we recovered the crude bombs from the garbage bin in the Bahadurganj area. A team of Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) has defused all the bombs," Deputy Inspector General of Police Ram Kumar told a news agency on phone from Allahabad, some 200 km from here. He, however, ruled out any terror angle behind the incident.
According to police, pieces of stones and gunpowder-like material have been found in the bombs.
"As of now, we cannot ascertain the intensity of these bombs," Allahabad City Superintendent of Police SS Baghel told reporters.
A bomb blast that took place in Varanasi Tuesday evening had killed a toddler and injured over 30 people.
IANS
First Published: Thursday, December 09, 2010, 15:41