03-12-2006, 12:03 AM
<b>Mumbai: Explosive recovered, defused</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->A day before the 13th anniversary of Mumbai serial bomb blasts, a major terrorist strike in the city was averted on Saturday with the<b> timely detection of two kilograms of explosive Ammonium Nitrate from the Byculla railway station </b>in Central Mumbai.
The Anti-Terrorist Squad received an anonymous call around 10 am, saying that a suspicious object was lying in the men's toilet at platform number one of the station since the past few hours.
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Apart from the explosive filled in a polypack water bottle, police also recovered a pocket-size transformer, that could have provided necessary current if a detonator was to be attached to the explosive device, Police Commissioner A N Roy said told reporters in Mumbai.
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Roy said <b>Ammonium Nitrate was also used in explosions </b>that occurred at Varanasi earlier this week, but added that the <b>explosive devices used there also contained RDX</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Every media report have different version of bomb.
The Anti-Terrorist Squad received an anonymous call around 10 am, saying that a suspicious object was lying in the men's toilet at platform number one of the station since the past few hours.
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Apart from the explosive filled in a polypack water bottle, police also recovered a pocket-size transformer, that could have provided necessary current if a detonator was to be attached to the explosive device, Police Commissioner A N Roy said told reporters in Mumbai.
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Roy said <b>Ammonium Nitrate was also used in explosions </b>that occurred at Varanasi earlier this week, but added that the <b>explosive devices used there also contained RDX</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Every media report have different version of bomb.