PATHLAIYA: An unidentified gang detonated a bomb at a commoner’s house in Bara’s Jitpur on Sunday morning.

A group of four persons hurled a socket bomb at the house of Khusi Raj Upreti early in the morning, said the Area Police Office Simara. The explosion partially damaged the upper floor of the house. Agni, army commander of Tarai Mukti Morcha for Bara, Parsa and Rautahat, owned up the explosion over phone.