Banka: Nine pilgrims injured in cylinder blast

Banka, Bihar: Nine people were injured on Sunday, four of them critically in a cylinder blast at a pilgrim centre in the Bihar's Banka district, police said.

The accident occurred when three cylinders burst one after another while preparing meal for a group of Shiva pilgrims at 'Assam Kanwarias (Shiva pilgrims) Sewa Shibir', they said.

The injured were admitted to nearby hospital where the attending doctors referred four of them to a Deoghar hospital in neighbouring Jharkhand.

The cause of the blast is being investigated.