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Two boys killed in Ahmedabad blast

By Manas Dasgupta

AHMEDABAD April 29 . Two boys were killed and five injured in an accidental bomb blast in Kalupur locality in Ahmedabad while six persons were injured in police-firing in Vadodara today.

Barring these incidents, most parts of riot-torn Gujarat remained incident-free on the eve of the debate in Parliament on the situation prevailing in the State.

Police said that some people were taking a few bombs to the rooftops in Mansur-ni-Chali in Panchpatti area in Kalupur apparently with the intention of throwing the bombs on the neighbours' houses when two of the bombs went off accidentally one after another. The two boys were killed on the spot.

No arrest had been made in this connection so far but the police is keeping a close watch on the locality on the suspicion that the bombs were being manufactured there.

The police had only on Sunday detected a similar unit in Yakutpura in Vadodara where crude bombs were being manufactured.

A couple of bombs also exploded on Sunday night in the hitherto unaffected posh Muslim Society within yards of the Navragpura police station.

No one was injured in the blast nor any damage was caused and the police believed it could be intended to scare away the minority residents from the area.

In Vadodara, the police had to open fire in Vadi and Panigate localities to disperse the stone-pelting mobs, which gathered in large numbers on the streets defying the curfew.

The trouble that started on Sunday night continued well into the day but there was no major incident of arson or stabbing.

While an indefinite curfew continued in all the six police station areas in Vadodara covering almost the entire walled city, in Ahmedabad an indefinite curfew remained in force in Kalupur and Gomtipur while phased relaxations were given in the other trouble-prone areas of Vejalpur, Gaekwad Haveli, Bapunagar and Rakhial and passed off incident-free, the police said.

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