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Bombs' origin yet to be traced

Staff Reporter

Blast at Perambra police station

Kozhikode: The police are yet to identify whether the bombs that went off on the premises of the Perambra police station in Kozhikode district on Saturday were seized from any political parties or recovered from within the limits of the police station.

Over a dozen cases of seizures or recoveries had been registered at this station in the past 10 years. "We are awaiting the report of the forensic experts," Kannur Range Deputy Inspector General of Police S. Anandakrishnan said.

The officer is investigating whether the Perambra police station followed the procedures in storing and disposing of the explosives in a safe manner.

He said that preliminary reports suggested that the samples collected from the debris contained traces of chlorates, nitrates and aluminium powder.

Gunpowder was usually found in the explosives that had been seized in many cases. Potassium nitrate, sulphur and charcoal were mixtures used in gunpowder.

"Some places within the limits of the Perambra police station like Kuttiyadi and Nadapuram in the rural areas of Kozhikode are communally and politically sensitive places," Mr. Anandakrishnan said.

Earlier, the police had said that the bombs recovered from Kadiyangadu near Perambra in 2002 exploded on Saturday. More than a dozen bombs, which were recovered in the case, had been kept buried on the station premises.

Mr. Anandakrishnan said that the Special Investigation Team led by Deputy Superintendent of Police (District Crime Record Bureau) M.B. Vijayan was investigating the cause of the explosion.

A police constable P. Rajeesh was injured in the blast that occurred in a car shed of the police station. Three vehicles including a police jeep were damaged.

A day after the blast, State Director of Forensic Science Laboratory James Phillipose collected the samples from the debris. These had been despatched to the laboratories in Thiruvananthapuram.

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