Overview
- A parcel detonated while workers were unloading a courier vehicle on Vilasrao Deshmukh Marg in Latur on Saturday morning, seriously injuring a 52-year-old employee who remains hospitalized.
- Police and specialist teams from the Anti-Terrorism Squad, bomb detection unit and forensic labs secured the scene, collected the burnt parcel and other material, and sent samples for laboratory analysis.
- Investigators say the consignment was sent from Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar to a shop named Banduk Ghar and preliminarily identified three air pistols and CO2 cartridges inside the box.
- Officers suspect heat from prolonged sun exposure of the parked vehicle and friction between pressurized CO2 cartridges may have triggered the blast, but they will await forensic results and courier records for confirmation.
- A case has been registered under the Explosives Act and other statutes and four people, including two gun shop owners, have been booked as police probe legal compliance and negligent packing or transport.