Seven people, including three children, were injured in an crude bomb explosion in Colonelganj area of Kanpur on Tuesday evening, the police said.

A bomb wrapped in a polythene bag and kept on a bicycle went off at 1830 hours, Senior Superintendent of Police Hari Ram Sharma said.

The explosion took place near a liquor vendor, he said.

Seven people, three of them children, were injured in the blast, the SSP said.

Uttar Pradesh [Images] Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Brij Lal said it was not a terror attack.