Two injured after explosion at under-construction building in Bengaluru, battery blast suspected: Cops

Two people were injured in an explosion at an underconstruction building in Bengaluru in the early hours of Wednesday with police suspecting that a batterylike object may have exploded The exact cause of the blast is yet to be established reported the PTIThe explosion occurred around 230 am on the fourth floor of a building on Jarmia Road within the limits of Pulakeshinagar police station A fire broke out following the explosion prompting fire personnel to rush to the spot and extinguish the blazeThe injured reportedly a security guard from Nepal and a construction worker were admitted to Bowring Hospital for treatmentHome Minister urges people not to speculateAccording to the PTI Karnataka Home Minister Priyank Kharge said the cause of the explosion was still under investigation and urged people not to draw conclusions before the findings were establishedldquoThe cause of the explosion is yet to be establishedrdquo Kharge told reporters adding that the preliminary investigation had just begun and samples needed to be sent to a laboratory for testing the news agency reportedWATCH Karnataka Visuals of the spot where an explosion occurred in Pulakeshinagar Bengaluru yesterday An investigation is underway httpstcoqeKsIIjJvEmdash ANI ANI October 21 2026He said one of the injured men had lost a finger while the other had sustained minor injuriesKharge also said investigators were examining the available evidence to determine whether the incident was caused by a chemical reaction an improvised explosive device IED or something elseldquoNo case has been registered and the authorities have taken the case on their ownrdquo he said adding that it would be premature to draw conclusions about the nature of the explosion as per the PTIBomb squad and forensic experts examine siteBengaluru DCP East division Vikram Amte visited the site while Pulakeshinagar police launched an investigation into the incidentThe bomb squad AntiTerrorism Squad ATS and forensic experts also examined the site and the object suspected to have explodedPolice suspect that a batterylike object may have triggered the blast However the exact cause will be determined only after the examination of evidence and laboratory testsInvestigators are also looking into whether the incident has any connection with previous explosions reported in Bengaluru including cases linked to the manufacture of explosive materialsWATCH Karnataka On a blast in Bengalurus Pulakeshinagar PS limits City Police Commissioner Seemant Kumar Singh says Yesterday in the late evening Pulakeshinagar Police Station got a message that there was a blast in Pulakeshinagar limits in the afternoon So we got an MLC report from the hospital Based on that our Police have started an investigation Prima facie what we have found till now is that it is an underconstruction 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 mdash 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 This is as per the statement of the injured One of the injured is still admitted and the other has been discharged So our Police teams are verifying how it happened and what was the contents of that As far as the technical evidence is concerned our ATC team the BDDS team the FSL team went to the spot last night Senior officers and I went there 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 As per our first reports both of them are not from Bengaluru They are from different states We are verifying from those states and their Police Stations We are also verifying with 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 he also saysmdash ANI ANI October 21 2026Resident recalls loud explosionAn eyewitness living in a neighbouring building said the explosion was extremely loud and caused vibrations inside his homeldquoThe sound was extremely loud For a moment I thought Deepavali had arrivedrdquo the eyewitness said according to the PTIThe incident has drawn attention as it occurred during the ongoing Dussehra festive period Investigators are continuing to examine the evidence to establish the cause of the explosionwith PTI and ANI inputs