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Sunday, Jul 04, 2004

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Tamil Nadu Express searched for explosives

By Our Staff Reporter

VIJAYAWADA, JULY 3. Following information that huge quantities of explosives are being transported to New Delhi illegally, the Vijayawada city police, the Government Railway Police (GRP) and the bomb squad conducted searches in the New Delhi-bound Tamil Nadu Express in the early hours of Saturday. The train was allowed to leave the station some time later as no explosives were found.

The police received information from intelligence sources that anti-social elements, travelling in the Tamil Nadu Express, were carrying explosives to Delhi to create disturbances during the Independence day celebrations on August 15. Alert cops stopped the train which arrived at the Vijayawada railway station as scheduled at 4.45 am and conducted searches. As a result, the train was delayed by 40 minutes.

The North circle inspector, D.V.Nageswara Rao, and the Railway DSP, Seshagiri Rao, said the train was searched on "definite" information about an extremist group transporting explosives from Chennai to New Delhi to create destruction and mayhem in the national capital on August 15. The bomb squad scanned every nook and corner in the train with metal detectors. Both the city police and railway police brought sniffer dog squads to search for explosives amongst the luggage of passengers. Mr.Nageswara Rao said the train was allowed to leave the station only when the bomb squad experts and the police personnel were fully satisfied that there were no explosives aboard the train.

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