Police file case against man for storing explosives which led to blast

Indian police were hunting Sunday for a suspect who illegally stored explosives in a restaurant building in central India that sparked a deadly blast, killing over 85 people and injuring about 100. The blast occurred in the town of Petlawad in Madhya Pradesh state's Jhabua district on Saturday when many office workers and schoolchildren were having breakfast in the restaurant and scores of labourers waited at a crowded bus stand near the building. According to a senior Jhabua district police official, the suspect, Rajendra Khaswa,  who has been on the run with his brothers since Saturday, had illegally stored urea, gelatine sticks, detonators and other explosives used for digging wells, construction and mining in a warehouse in the building.

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