ISIS suspected for an explosion in Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president K Annamalai claims that the recent explosion reported in Tamil Nadu  was not an accident, but rather a “planned terror attack” with the Islamic State.

After further investigation into the car explosion made by the Tamil Nadu (TN)police on Monday even as CCTV footage showed a group of men carrying a gunny bag from the house of Jemisha Mubeen, who was killed in the blast.
A person sitting inside a car was charred to death, when the gas cylinder fitted in the vehicle apparently exploded and the ensuing fire engulfed it in Ukkadam area of the city here in the early hours of Sunday, The TN Police said.

State Director General of Police for TN C Sylendra Babu had on Sunday said that “low-intensive” explosive material including potassium nitrate, used in making country bombs, were recovered from the house of Mubeen.

The CCTV footage near the house showed a group of people purportedly taking out a gunny bag from Mubeen’s house around 11.25 pm on Saturday, police said.

The cylinder explosion in the car happened near Kottai Eswaran Temple in the busy and communally sensitive Ukkadam area around 4 am on Sunday.

While one of the them could be Mubeen, investigation is on to identify the remaining members, police added.

Police are also questioning seven people in this connection, based on the contact they made with Mubeen. An auto-rickshaw driver from Coonoor in nearby Nilgiris district was brought here for interrogation, tracing his mobile phone signal at the place of explosion.

A resident of Ottupattarai in Coonoor, he was residing there for the last four months, police said.

AIADMK interim general secretary and Tamil Nadu Leader of Opposition K Palaniswami called for an independent probe into the matter, to ascertain if the incident was an accident or a conspiracy.

“Whenever the DMK assumes power in Tamil Nadu, instances of bomb blasts become routine and recurring,” he alleged in a statement and claimed the incident exposed the lack of proper functioning of the police and Intelligence department.

Mean while the TN Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president K Annamalai claims that it was not an accident, but rather a “planned terror attack” with the Islamic State.

“Coimbatore Cylinder blast is no more a ‘cylinder blast’. It’s a clear-cut terror act with ISIS links, Says Annamalai

“Is this not a clear failure of the state intelligence machinery & DMK Govt?” Annamalai tweeted.

(Agencies)