The low intensity blast at 10.20am on Wednesday on the Temple Street in Malleswaram was meant to create panic and was not meant to target the BJP office as is being made out, said a top Intelligence source.
“The explosive — ammonium nitrate — strapped to a Tamil Nadu registered motorbike parked in between two Maruti omni vans was locally procured and crudely put together in a hurry,” a senior intelligence officer said.
The bike, the vans, a Santro car and the KSRP van parked nearby were badly damaged after the fuel tank in one of the cars caught fire. “The criminals used petrol-driven cars as a shield and the IED was reportedly triggered by a remote timer device because no wires were found at the site of the explosion. The shock waves rattled the buildings in the vicinity, shattering glass windows and doors. The explosion was meant more to create panic than to kill or seriously injure people,” a top Intelligence source told this newspaper.
He added that it maybe too early to establish it was a “terror” attack. “There’s been no Intelligence input, no alerts, no intercepts, mails or calls to verify this as a terrorist attack. The blast site is not a crowded place,” the officer added.
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Police in tn bsnl worker’s house for bike details
age CORRESPONDENT
CHENNAI, APRIL 17
Hours after the bomb blast near the BJP office in Bengaluru, a special team from Karnataka police on Wednesday evening landed at the Adambakkam house of Sankaranarayanan, a retired BSNL employee, seeking to know details about the bike on which the bomb was planted. Acc-ording to the sleuths from Karnataka, the bike (TN 22 R 3769) on which the bomb was placed, had the number registered in Meenam-bakkam RTO and it belonged to Sundar, son of Sankaranarayanan, residing on 22nd street in Thi-llai Ganga Nagar, Adamb-akkam, here. “Sankarana-rayanan told the investigators that the bike was used by Sundar.”