Senior BJP Leader L.K.Advani escaped from an attack on his life in Madurai on Saturday morning. A crude pipe bomb was planted beneath a bridge in a village near Madurai in Tamil Nadu which was detected by a villager who passed by it and was later on defused.
Advani was scheduled to cross the bridge at Alampatti near Thirumangalam, about 25 kms from Madurai to reach Sriviliputhur in Virudhunagar district. Later the leader who was on Jan Chetna Yatra changed his route map and reached Sriviliputhur from where he was set to travel to Shencottah in Tamil Nadu- Kerala border.
Police said that the pipe bomb which was found out was five feet long which was hidden under a low level bridge across a stream in Alampatti, the sources revealed the pipe to be made of Poly Vinyl Chloride (PVC).
A senior police officer revealed that the pipe was stuffed with explosives and was connected to a wire linked to a batterly which was kept half a kilometer away near to a palm tree in a deserted place. The wire was spotted by a village man named Mr. Selvaraj (49) when he went to that place to answer nature's call and informed the village elders, who in turn alerted the police. Even Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad (BDDS) rushed to the spot. Senior police officer and BDDS personnel rushed to the spot and removed the crude bomb. It was latern on taken to the forest area and there they defused the bomb. A police official revealed that the bomb contained 7 kg of high explosive gelatin gel.
The detection of crude bomb on the route of Advani has caused a serious intelligence failure. And reportedly this is the third incident of crude bomb taking place in Madurai this year. The recent incident was on September 29 when a crude bomb was found inside a private bus.
News reported by AR for Newsvision
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