Ludhiana

One person was killed and four others were injured in an explosion in Ludhiana District Court Complex on Thursday, police said.

“An explosion was heard near the Record Room on the second floor of the Ludhiana Court complex. One person died, four persons were injured in the incident. Bomb disposal team and forensics team has been called from Chandigarh for probe. There is no need to panic,” Ludhiana’s police commissioner Gurpreet Singh Bhullar said.

"The identity of a possible suspect, whose body was found at the explosion site, is being ascertained," he said.

Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi described the explosion as the handiwork of "anti-national elements", ahead of the state's Assembly elections.

Channi also said that the government is on alert and those guilty won't be spared. "I am going to Ludhiana. Some anti-national elements are doing such acts as Assembly elections are nearing. The government is on alert. Those found guilty will not be spared," he said.