Five children hurt in blast in Kaushambi near Allahabad

At least four children were hurt in a small explosion in front of a school in Kaushambi on Tuesday but it may not be a militant attack, police said. The blast occurred in a deserted house in Kaushambi near Allahabad.                                           

"During recess some children had gone to a deserted house near the school to play. They may have touched some crude explosive device," MP Verma, a senior police officer, told Reuters. "This does not look like a terrorist attack. A team of bomb experts has gone there."                                           

India has been on high alert after a bomb in Pune killed 15 people on Feb. 13. That attack was suspected to have been carried out by home-grown Islamists and was the first major militant strike since the 2008 attacks on Mumbai.