A bomb fitted with a timer was found near a house at Simultala village on the Indo-Bangla border in West Bengal’s Malda district on Sunday.
Last month, two persons had been killed in a bomb blast in another house in the area.
Police said villagers found the bomb in a bag in the compound of a house in Baishnabnagar area.
A bomb disposal squad defused the explosive, police said and added that bomb experts were being rushed from Siliguri.