Wedding gift Nightmare: Husband dies, wife critical after opening the gift
A newly-wed couple witnessed the horror of a wedding gift as they opened a parcel bomb wrapped as a wedding gift.
The man and his 85-year-old grandmother were killed and his wife is critically injured in western Odisha town of Patnagarh.
The victims who were identified as Soumya Sekhar Sahu of Patnagarh and his grandmother Jemamani Sahu, succumbed to injuries in a local hospital.
His wife Reema Sahu is in a critical condition in a government medical college in Sambalpur district.
Sahu’s nephew Dipak Sahu said the parcel, not having the sender’s name or address, exploded as soon as it was unwrapped.
Jemamani was declared brought dead at the local hospital while Sekhar died in government-run medical college and hospital in Burla, as per the police officials.
Patnagarh sub-divisional police officer Sesadeba Bariha said the parcel seems to have a crude bomb which was designed to explode on unwrapping.
The dog squad and the forensic team of the Bolangir police have started investigation.
-PTC News
