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Low intensity timed device used in Malegaon blasts: Police
ATS chief and DIG are camping in Malegaon to ascertain the nature of explosives and find any terror group if involved.
Low intensity explosive devices were used in the three blasts at a local mosque on Friday that killed 31 people, a senior Maharashtra police officer said. The explosives were detonated by a mechanical or a digital timer, it was learnt.
"Many of the injured have splinter injuries, indicating that explosive devices similar to timer-fitted crude bombs could have been used, the official told on Saturday.
"There were definitely timer-fitted devices and evidence at the moment suggests that an analogue or a digial timer may have been used," he added.
Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) Chief, KP Raghuvanshi, ATS DIG Subodh Jaiswal and other squad members are camping in the town to ascertain the nature of explosives and find out if any terror group was involved in the blasts.
Samples of the remains of explosives have been sent to the forensic science laboratory in Mumbai, where tests to identify the explosive were likely to be completed by Saturday evening, sources said.
ATS sources were non-committal whether deadly explosive RDX was used, even in minute quantity, in the explosive devices.
"We suspect that RDX, that was being transported by suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba members near Aurangabad, a portion of which was seized in May, has still not been fully seized. It cannot be ruled out that some of that may have been used on Friday," an ATS official said.
