A suspected battery explosion occured in an under-construction building in Bengaluru's Pulakeshinagar PS limits on Tuesday, leaving two people injured.
Speaking to reported on a blast in Bengaluru, City Police Commissioner Seemant Kumar Singh said Pulakeshinagar Police Station got a message late evening that there was a blast in Pulakeshinagar limits in the afternoon.
The officials got an MLC report from the hospital and has initiated an investigation into the matter.
"Prima facie what we have found till now is that it is an under-construction house where few families are already staying. In this particular house also, interior work was going on, but no one was living there. Two people were injured — one was a worker and the other was a security guard of that building. One of them had pressed the button of a battery, he says that it was a battery torch. However, on pressing the button, there was a blast," the official said.
One of the injured persons is still admitted in the hospital, while other has been discharged.
The Police teams are verifying the cause behind the explosion. The ATC team, the BDDS team, the FSL team went to the spot to gether technical evidence.
"We are verifying from all angles. What are the materials used, FSL will give details of that shortly. Based on that, we will try to reconstruct the materials used in this blast, if it is a blast. But as of now, since these two injured people are the only witnesses, they are giving some information and based on that we are trying to reconstruct the scene and what must have happened," he added.
According to the first reports, the two people injured in the battery explosion incident were not from Bengaluru. The Police is verifying from the respective states and police stations, and gathering information from the owner of the house and inmates of other flats.
"We have kept all the agencies informed, including the ISD (Internal Security Division). ISD officers have also come. We are also in touch with NIA officers because we need to find out the modus operandi...," the City Police Commissioner said.