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| Twin blasts in Chennai: Two ticketless passengers who got down before Chennai among suspects |
| 2014-05-02 |
| [TIMESOFINDIA.INDIATIMES] In the absence of any concrete leads, investigations into the Chennai blasts have zeroed in on two passengers who boarded the affected coaches of Bangalore-Guwahati Express in Bangalore without tickets and alighted before the train reached Chennai. However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... central agencies also suspect the bombs could have been kept in the train in Chennai itself with their timers set for a short span. "The bombs went kaboom!12 minutes after the train reached Chennai," said an officer privy to investigation details. Sources said the two are being viewed as suspects based on the testimony of passengers who said two young men boarded the train's S4 and S5 coaches without tickets, slept on the floor and were nowhere to be found in the morning. Though Tamil Nadu police has also detained a passenger in connection with the blasts that claimed one life and left 14 injured, sources in central agencies said it was unlikely the man would be involved. "The man was hiding in the toilet after the blasts. Though he is being questioned, it is unlikely he is involved. Terrorists don't plant bombs and stay on," the officer said. Sources said the circumstances of the blasts are such that no particular group is being suspected yet. Preliminary analysis of the bombs shows it was a concoction of explosives with ball bearings and timer device. The nature of timer device or the container in which the explosives were kept has not been ascertained. "Perhaps, post-mortem of the girl who died will reveal what kind of container may have been used as its shards may have entered her body," said another officer. Agencies assume that if the bomb was planted in Bangalore or a few stations before Chennai, then it was supposed to explode in Gudur in Andhra Pradesh. However, a woman is only as old as she admits... since the train was running late by two hours, it went kaboom!at Chennai station itself. The fact that the bombs were not of very high intensity points to the fact that inexperienced hands were behind the blasts, said sources. This is the third incidence of terror that Tamil Nadu is witnessing in a span of barely three months. |
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