Five persons were injured in a bomb blast near a bus-stand in this city of Jharkhand today, police said.

"The blast took place at around 5:15 am near the bus stand," Superintendent of Police Jitendra Singh said.

The injured were rushed to a hospital where there conditions are stated to be out of danger, he said.

"It was a low intensity blast," Singh said, adding the police are investigating the matter and a search operation was launched to identify the culprits.