Bomb making is a cottage industry of Bengal - at least 12 minors killed in Pingla while making bombs

#PinglaBlast #WestBengal #Midnapore Bomb making appears to be a thriving cottage industry in West Bengal and, this has been revealed in the latest incident of the death of at least 12 minors in an explosion in a ‘factory’ situated in Pingla village of West Midnapore district. Reports indicate that crude homemade bombs used to be made in this location as reported in telegraphindia.com dated 8 May 2015.

This explosion in West Midnapore's Pingla has blown the veil off the cottage industry that thrives on explosives and employs thousands – most of those employed are minors and are poorly paid.
Senior officials in the state crime records bureau and their counterparts in the home department agree that the business of manufacturing and marketing crude bombs and explosives had been flourishing in a number of pockets of West Midnapore, Burdwan, Murshidabad and Birbhum since 2007.
Earlier the clients used to be from the CPM and TMC and, now, the BJP has also joined up because these bombs are useful to strike fear among the population.
Crude bombs are of two types - round and cylindrical. The former have jute fibers wrapped tightly around a paper packet that is filled with explosive materials. The latter are made from iron pipes in which are filled explosives including gunpowder and splinters.

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