{"id":9804,"date":"2023-10-05T17:24:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T17:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/05\/2-killed-6-injured-in-bengals-jalpaiguri-as-mortar-shell-floating-on-flood-waters-blows-up-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2023-10-05T17:24:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T17:24:35","slug":"2-killed-6-injured-in-bengals-jalpaiguri-as-mortar-shell-floating-on-flood-waters-blows-up-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/05\/2-killed-6-injured-in-bengals-jalpaiguri-as-mortar-shell-floating-on-flood-waters-blows-up-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"2 killed, 6 injured in Bengal\u2019s Jalpaiguri as mortar shell floating on flood waters blows up &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-498724\">&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-header post-tp-1-header\">\n<div class=\"single-featured\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content clearfix single-post-content\">\n<p>Kolkata: At least two persons were killed and six others were severely injured in West Bengal\u2019s Jalpaiguri on late Thursday as a mortar shell, reportedly carried by the flood waters of River Teesta, blew up, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The mortar shell, as believed by the local police officers, belonged to the Army and was carried away by flood waters flowing down from the hills.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Superintendent of Police, Crime, of Jalpaiguri Bikramjit Lama said that the identities of the two killed in the blast of the mortar shell are yet to be ascertained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe six injured persons have been admitted to Jalpaiguri Super-Specialty Hospital. A thorough probe in the matter has started already,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Local police sources said that in all probability after the victims tried to physically inspect the mortar shells carried to the area by the flood water when it exploded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe condition of a couple of the six injured is extremely critical and the death toll on this count is likely to increase,\u201d said a district police official.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(IANS)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n    var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n    if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n    js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n    js.src = \"\n    fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n  }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] &#13; &#13; &#13; Kolkata: At least two persons were killed and six others were severely injured in West Bengal\u2019s Jalpaiguri on late Thursday as a mortar shell, reportedly carried by the flood waters of River Teesta, blew up, police said. The mortar shell, as believed by the local police officers, belonged to the Army [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9806,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9804\/revisions\/9806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}