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8 kg of RDX found amid luggage near CST
A bomb squad officer takes a suspicious box to the police station after defusing a bomb at the CST in Mumbai on Wednesday.
MUMBAI: Eight kg of RDX, fitted with a timer, was found near the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) here a little after 6.15 p.m. on Wednesday, Railway Police Commissioner A.K. Sharma said.
Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh had visited the station between 5.30 and 6 p.m.
“The RDX was recovered from a room near the CST where a lot of luggage left behind by passengers in last Wednesday’s attacks was stored. Many people came to claim the luggage. Today, our workers, while moving the luggage saw a haversack. Since it was heavy, they got suspicious. We called the bomb squad and they defused the explosive device,” Mr. Sharma said, adding the police believed that the RDX was planted by the terrorists who attacked the station on November 26.
Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Rakesh Maria said the explosives were in two sets of four kg each.
On November 26, two bombs were found under the front seats of two taxis and one went off in Vile Parle and the other in Byculla at 10.45 p.m. and 10.47 p.m. respectively. One bomb exploded at the Trident-Oberoi and two explosives, found at the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower and between the Taj and Leopold Café did not explode.
Mr. Maria said the arrested terrorist confessed that he and his partner Mohammad Ismail planted the bomb that exploded in Byculla.
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