Buxar: Two persons were killed and three others injured in two bomb explosions in a scrap dealer's shop at Sonbarsa Bazar under Nauwa police station of Bihar's Buxar district on March 16, police said.

The bombs exploded when the scrap dealer and his son were separating waste materials and unknowingly laid their hands on them.

Both the men were killed on the spot and three others present in the shop at the time were injured.

Police suspected that ragpickers had unknowingly collected the crude bombs along with the waste materials and had brought it to the scrap dealer's shop.

PTI