Unidentified persons hurled a bomb at the house of a pre-owned car dealer of Naya Bazar locality under Bank More police station area of Dhanbad during the wee hours of Sunday.

The house owner Bobby Khan and his other family members narrowly escaped the incident. However, property worth more than Rs 1 lakh was damaged in the fire caused by the explosion of the bomb as furniture including sofa set and bed were burnt.

A team from Bank More police station led by officer in charge Veer Kunwar reached the site after getting the information during the morning hours. A forensic team took details from the house owner, other family members and neighbours of Bobby Khan and also collected some samples from the site including remains of the bomb which exploded during the incident.

While talking to the media, Bobby Khan said, “We were asleep in our respective rooms. We awoke from the slumber after hearing the bang sound at around 4 am and rushed towards the vacant drawing room to find out a huge smoke coming out.”

“I am not aware that who is behind the incident as I have no enmity with anyone. This is the second incident of such kind as earlier this year on November 26 a bomb was hurled outside my house,” said Khan.

Meanwhile, talking to the media, the officer in charge of Bank More police station said, “We have collected some evidence from the site and trying to identify those behind the incident however nobody sighted anyone as it was still dark.”

Notably, altogether four computer traders of Dhanbad including the owner of City Computers, Vishal Kumar; owner of Jhajharia Computer, Vikash Agarwal; owner of Agarwal Computer, Tinku Agarwal and his elder brother Govind Agarwal had received extortion calls on their mobile phone numbers on November 29 this year in name of People’s Liberation Front of India.