Explosion in Kanpur, seven injured

At least seven people, including three children, were injured in an explosion in Colonelganj area in Kanpur on Tuesday evening, police said.

A bomb wrapped in a polythene bag and kept on a bicycle went off at 1830 hrs, SSP Hari Ram Sharma said.

The explosion took place near a liquor vend, he said.

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Seven people, three of them children, were injured in the blast, the SSP said.

Uttar Pradesh Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Brij Lal said it was not a terror attack.