A Delhi police investigation into an improvised explosive device (IED) recovered from the Ghazipur flower market on Friday revealed that it was part of a cargo of 24 bombs sent from the border by land or sea from Pakistan’s deep state. local terrorists. Other equipment recently found in Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab are believed to be part of the same shipment, and it is believed that some may have been smuggled into Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh.
The Ghazipur device was a tiffin bomb with a core charge of 3kg RDX and a secondary charge of ammonium nitrate, according to senior Delhi Police investigators who did not want to be named. Housed in a steel teapot with nails and ball bearings, the device can be detonated remotely.
Improvised explosive devices are smuggled across the border into existing sleeper modules in India as well as some criminal gangs. Delhi Police have arrested a terror module in Mumbai, Lucknow, Allahabad and Delhi in September 2021 in connection with this IED recovery. Delhi police investigators believe the batch of improvised explosive devices arrived in India around Independence Day last year. While Delhi police and security agencies are trying to recover other improvised explosive devices from the shipment, HT has learned that some of these improvised explosive devices also entered Gujarat by sea and UP by land. “It appears that militants in India are being tasked from the border to install equipment on pre-determined targets or use local criminals to do the job; a national alert has been issued to avoid a terrorist attack,” said one person. The senior security official said on condition of anonymity.
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