Birgunj, March 7:

One Bhola Shah Kalwar of Chhapkaiya in Birgunj was injured when a pistol he was carrying went off accidentally this morning.

The homemade pistol went off accidentally while he was at the local Satya cinema hall , Parsa DPO said. Kalwar sustained a bullet injury in his abdomen. Kalwar, who has already served a six-month jail term for smuggling, is involved in theft and cross-border smuggling, police claimed.