India, March 28 -- Two persons, including a 45-year-old scrap material collector and an 8-year-old boy, died and two others were injured after an unidentified explosion in Assam's Jorhat district on Saturday, police said.

The incident occurred in the Raja Maidam area of Jorhat town on Saturday afternoon. According to locals, the sound of the explosion was massive.

"Initially, we thought it was an LPG cylinder blast, but later we realized it was something different," a local resident said, adding that they rushed to the spot and found four people injured.

Police said the injured were immediately taken to Jorhat Medical College and Hospital, where doctors declared two of them dead.

The deceased have been identified as Noor Mohammad (45)...