India, April 28 -- A suspected bomber was killed in a late-night explosion on the Rajpura-Shambhu railway line in Punjab's Patiala district on Monday, an incident senior police officials have now termed a botched "attempted detonation."

The blast occurred around 10 pm near Bathonia village on a freight train track, temporarily suspending rail traffic and damaging a portion of the line, which railway officials later replaced.

Patiala senior superintendent of police (SSP) Varun Sharma, who rushed to the spot with the deputy inspector general Nanak Singh and teams from the Government Railway Police and Railway Protection Force, said the suspect died while trying to detonate the device.

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