The Assam Government Railway Police averted a major disaster on Friday when one of its personnel detected a powerful improvised explosive device from one of the coaches of the Kanchenjunga Express. The GRP stumbled upon on the bomb during a routine check of the train, which had arrived at Guwahati from Kolkata on Friday morning.
The police informed that the bomb, which was found to be a programmable timer device with four kg explosive, splinters and three detonators stuffed in a steel container, was recovered from Seat No 22 of sleeper coach No 5 of the train. The container was inside an unattended traveller's bag. They said after the bomb was found, all 1,100 passengers inside the train were deboarded.
A bomb blanket was thrown around the bag while the train was shifted from the platform to a siding line before the Assam police's bomb squad diffused the explosive. Had the device exploded it would have caused a major tragedy, said a police official.
The railway security was in process of being tightened in the wake of intelligence inputs about subversive attempts to attack the rail route when the bomb
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