Explosives defused at Mumbai railway station
Thursday, December 4, 2008
INDIAN police yesterday discovered and defused explosives at Mumbai's main railway station, left by militants who struck the city last week.
"This is part of the same consignment which the terrorists had brought on Wednesday night when they were attacking and running helter-skelter, some of the material had been left behind," anti-terrorism chief KP Raghuvashi said.
The situation was "under control" and a bomb disposal unit had defused the devices, he said.
The explosives were similar to others left by the militants elsewhere in the city during the attacks, reports said.
Indian television quoted police sources saying that "improvised explosive devices" were found among baggage that belonged to victims gunned down when militants launched attacks across the city last Wednesday night.
They were similar to devices found outside the Taj Mahal and Oberoi/Trident hotels and Leopold's cafe, three of the main targets of the attacks that left 188 people dead and around 300 injured.
They appeared to have been left "in the hope that they would go off later," the television quoted police as saying.
Many of the victims of the attacks were killed when the heavily-armed militants opened fire with automatic weapons and sprayed bullets across the crowded Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai's main railway station.
The chief minister of Maharashtra state, of which Mumbai is the main city, was due to visit the station yesterday evening.
Vilasrao Deshmukh has been severely criticised for a lack of leadership in the wake of the deadly assaults, and had offered his resignation.AFP
"This is part of the same consignment which the terrorists had brought on Wednesday night when they were attacking and running helter-skelter, some of the material had been left behind," anti-terrorism chief KP Raghuvashi said.
The situation was "under control" and a bomb disposal unit had defused the devices, he said.
The explosives were similar to others left by the militants elsewhere in the city during the attacks, reports said.
Indian television quoted police sources saying that "improvised explosive devices" were found among baggage that belonged to victims gunned down when militants launched attacks across the city last Wednesday night.
They were similar to devices found outside the Taj Mahal and Oberoi/Trident hotels and Leopold's cafe, three of the main targets of the attacks that left 188 people dead and around 300 injured.
They appeared to have been left "in the hope that they would go off later," the television quoted police as saying.
Many of the victims of the attacks were killed when the heavily-armed militants opened fire with automatic weapons and sprayed bullets across the crowded Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai's main railway station.
The chief minister of Maharashtra state, of which Mumbai is the main city, was due to visit the station yesterday evening.
Vilasrao Deshmukh has been severely criticised for a lack of leadership in the wake of the deadly assaults, and had offered his resignation.AFP
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