Overview
- An explosion tore through the emergency ward of Multani Hospital in Kalanaur, Gurdaspur, on Tuesday, shattering door glass and windowpanes but causing no injuries.
- Police and senior officers arrived quickly, forensic teams collected evidence at the scene, and investigators have identified CCTV footage that shows a suspicious man near the hospital.
- Local shopkeepers said they heard a loud sound from a distance, a detail police are using while piecing together the sequence of the blast.
- Gurdaspur MP Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa suggested the device may have been a grenade and demanded a full probe, a claim that police have not yet forensically confirmed.
- Separately, later reporting says police arrested a suspect within hours and the state DGP cited possible links to a foreign-based handler, though officials say further checks and questioning are under way to establish motive and wider ties.