86-year-old man dies in bomb blast in Kerala's Kannur
Kannur (Kerala), Jun 18: An 86-year-old man died in a bomb explosion near Thalassery in this north Kerala district on Tuesday.
The elderly man -- Velayudhan -- died when he picked up and tried to open the bomb which he found from an uninhabited property where he had gone to collect coconuts, police said.
Velayudhan was seriously injured in the explosion and rushed to the Thalassery Cooperative Hospital but his life could not be saved, police said.
A senior police officer of the district told reporters here that according to the preliminary investigations, it appeared to be a steel bomb.
"It may have been discarded here or may have been deliberately concealed here," he said, adding that the incident occurred around 12.45 pm.
The officer said the bomb squad was carefully inspecting the property from where the explosive was found.
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Stalin urges Centre to rollback commercial LPG price hike
Chennai (PTI): Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Friday demanded that the Centre immediately rollback the hike in commercial LPG cylinder prices. The price of commercial LPG was hiked by the steepest ever Rs 993 per 19-kg cylinder on May 1, marking the third straight monthly increase due to rising global energy prices linked to the West Asia conflict.
In his social media X platform, the DMK chief alleged that as predicted before the polls, the BJP-led union government has raised LPG prices immediately after the elections concluded.
"When global crude oil prices fell, the benefits were not passed on to the people, " he said, accusing the Centre of "using the West Asia war crisis as an excuse to raise the prices without regard for public welfare".
Calling for protection of the livelihood of the people, Stalin demanded an immediate rollback of the LPG price hike.
He asked the Centre to consider the people's suffering and find solutions.
