A screengrab of the video in which the man is seen with his injured hands.

NEW DELHI: Delhi Police on Friday arrested two persons after the video of a man with his hand blown off during the Seelampur riots in northeast Delhi went viral.

In the video, the man is seen trying to lob a Molotov bomb towards the cops which accidentally exploded in his hand. Cops later found him at the GTB hospital undergoing treatment and arrested him.

The incident took place last Tuesday where the man identified as Rahish had lit the Molotov cocktail and tried to throw it at the police team but it somehow exploded in his own hand.

In the clip, shot by his friend Hassan, others were heard saying "haath jal gya" when he walks back with his hands bleeding.

Police tracked down Hassan as well from the Jafrabad locality later and recovered the phone in which he had recorded the video. Cops also recovered a cache of Molotov bombs from them.

A Molotov cocktail is a crude bomb made out of a glass bottle, partly filled with gasoline and splinters that is lit and then thrown.



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