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RDX used in Ludhiana cinema blast: Police

Chandigarh: Deadly RDX explosive was used in the Shringaar cinema hall blast in Ludhiana recently that left six persons dead and 30 wounded, the Punjab police said here on Friday. “Traces of RDX have been found. The quantity of RDX and other explosives used in the blast is half-a-kg or less,” Additional Director-General of Police (Law and Order) Chandershekhar told PTI.

Forensic, National Security Guard and Army experts had confirmed the use of the lethal explosive in the blast, he said. However, the intensity of the blast was “not very high”, he added. The confirmation of RDX had established involvement of cross-border anti-national forces in the blast, the cop said. Claiming that the police were zeroing in on the suspects, he said investigations were in full swing and it was not desirable to give further details at this stage. A report from Ludhiana said investigators probing the blast had so far questioned 60 people, including former terrorists and their family members.

Meanwhile in Jallandhar, State Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal said that the Ludhiana cinema hall blast was not due to intelligence failure on part of the State, reacting to Union Minister of State for Home Prakash Jaiswal’s remarks.

“Blasts had occurred in Ajmer and Andhra Pradesh also but the Minister did not term these as intelligence failures,” he told reporters here. - PTI

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