Allahabad, July 12: Uttar Pradesh Cabinet Minister Nand Gopal Nandi has been critically injured following a bomb explosion outside his residence in Allahabad on Monday morning. The explosion was apparently caused by a bomb hidden inside a motorcycle parked near the minister’s vehicle.
Two security guards of the minister were killed and three policemen along with a local journalist Vijay Pratap Singh were injured in the bomb attack. The 36-year-old Nandi, who is the Minister for Institutional Finance, Stamp and Judicial Tax in the Mayawati government, was admitted to Jeevan Jyoti Hospital and had slipped into coma However, he recovered and is now reportedly put of danger.
“One reporter, one policemen and the minister have bullet injuries. We are treating all of them. The minister is in coma. The minister has chest, face and hand injury. All of them are in ICU. The journalist is serious,” said Dr DP Singh of Jeevan Jyoti Hospital.
——-Agencies