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Bihar: Man hurls bomb in market; girl killed

January 18, 2011 17:58 IST

An eight-year-old girl was killed and 12 people were injured, five seriously, in a bomb blast at Kazirganj Bazar in Bihar's Nawada district on Tuesday.

An unidentified cycle-borne person threw the bomb at a fish shop in the market which exploded killing the girl on the spot, sub-divisional officer S Z Hasan said.

The injured were admitted to Sadar hospital where the condition of five was stated to be critical, he said.

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