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Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 29: Even as two blasts rocked Udhampur within a gap of eight hours, the police on Thursday suspected the hand of Lashkar e Taiba, which may have used two similar explosives to carry out the terror strikes.
A senior official close to the investigations told the Early Times that initial inquiry as conducted by the Jammu and Kashmir Police and the Indian Army into the twin incidents suggest that “similar explosives with digital timer devices” were used to carry out the explosions.
He said the nature of the blast suggests that RDX was used to carry out the attacks.
The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity said, the initial inputs suggest that the attacks were carried out by Lashkar-e-Taiba module, operating in the region adding that the same would be busted soon.
He said the pattern of attacks and the explosion were enough to expose the role of Lashkar module which is feared to be led by a Pakistani terrorist.
The official said whereas both the JKP and the Indian Army were carrying our separate inquiries, the common belief, as per the initial inputs, is that the same “bomb maker” may have made both the bombs before handing them over to the terror cadres for planting them into buses.
“When similar explosions take place in similar situation, the prima facie in itself explains that it’s the handiwork of the same module,” said the official.
The twin blasts rocked Udhampur within eight hours injuring two persons, police and reports said on September 29 morning.
A blast in a bus parked at a stand in Udhampur city this morning, the second within a few hours, sent security agencies in a tizzy as they sounded a high alert.
The roof and the backside of the bus were blown away by the blast that occurred around 5.30 am on Thursday but no one was injured, they said.
The incidents occurred just days ahead of the visit of Union Home Minister Amit Shah starting October 4. He was supposed to embark on a three-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir on September 30 and hold public meetings in Rajouri on October 1 and Baramulla on October 2. However, the visit was rescheduled.
On Wednesday night, a blast occurred in an empty bus parked near a petrol pump at Domail Chowk, injuring two people, sources said, adding the bus used to be parked at the spot daily.
The bus in which the second blast occurred had come from Basantgarh in Udhampur district and was on night halt at the bus stand. It was scheduled to leave for Basantgarh in the morning. |
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