Bomb Blasts In India - 1

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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Bombs made in city, switch in Nalgonda </b>
Hyderabad, Aug. 26: Police has found out that the bombs used in the twin blasts of Saturday were put together in the city and the detonators were manufactured by AP Explosives Ltd in Nalgonda district. AP Forensic Science Laboratory director O. Narasimha Murthy said that the explosive material in the bombs was ammonium nitrate (slurry) mixed with emulisfier. It was made by a Nagpur firm. Police, meanwhile, picked up four youth from the old city on suspicion. The youth were identified by witness descrpitions at Gokul Chat Bhandar, which saw the bigger of the two blasts on Saturday. Witnesses said that they had come to the eatery with a bag a few minutes before the blast.

When contacted, director-general of police M.A. Basith said, “You ask the commissioner. Why do you ask me?” He refused to reveal details of the probe. All the bombs were similar. <b>About one kg of slurry was stuffed into a curved wooden container covered with metal sheets. Iron ball bearings weighing about 700 grams were found in the bomb. An alarm clock was used to detonate them</b>.

“Slurry is commonly used by terrorists but the use of a curved container for powerful impact is not seen much,” said an intelligence bureau official. An APFSL expert added that the curved shape was used to create a ‘wave’ which would add to the impact. “The bomb was definitely placed to kill people and not to create panic,” he said. “Slurry explodes at a speed of 3,000 to 4,000 metres per second,” said CLUES team in-charge Suresh Kumar. <b>The police believes that some of the alleged ISI activists who were released from jail two months ago had links with the Student Islamic Movement of India (Simi). Sources close to investigation said that police has clues about the involvement of Simi in the blasts after the questioning two of the employees of Gokul Chat bhandar.</b>

A senior police officer told this correspondent that the Intelligence Bureau had informed the State officials after the twin blasts that a Bangladesh-based terror outfit reportedly contacted some of the youth of Hyderabad and a representative of the organisation met a city-based activist of Simi recently in the country. <b>Elsewhere, police picked up one Mustafa Ahmed, owner of a meat shop at Bibnagar in Nalgonda district, for interrogation</b>. He was later released. A case was registered against him in Nanded in 2000 and another case was registered in Aurangabad under the Arms and Explosives Act. Nalgonda additional superintendent of police Venkateswara Rao said that investigations revealed that <b>he had no connection with Pakistan’s ISI. </b>

However, police are verifying whether Mustafa had any links with Moulana Naseeruddin of Tehreek Thafuz Sher E Islam, who is now in jail. “There is a factory manufacturing ball bearings in the area,” said Mr Venkatsewara Rao. “We have questioned them but there are no leads.” Nagpur police also conducted searches at Amin Explosives at Gandhibagh area. However no arrests were made.

Police is verifying whether any employee of the company had links to Hyderabad. <b>“One Sohail belonging to Amin Explosives was interviewed</b>,” said a police officer. Bomb experts of the National Security Guard visited the blast sites at Gokul Chat and Lumbini Park, apart from sleuths of the Intelligence Bureau, Central Bureau of Investigation and Central Forensic Science Laboratory. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->