Gaya blasts: Police seek clues from CCTV cameras

July 07, 2013 16:33

Vicky Nanjappa reports: The bombs used to set off the serial blasts in Gaya comprised an improvised explosive device assembled with ammonium nitrate and shrapnel.

The bombs were triggered off by a timer device.

"Terror groups have been increasingly using timers and not cell phones, as the latter tend to leave a trail," said a source.

The police are also hopeful about getting clues from CCTV footage, though some of the cameras were only used for monitoring and they had no storage capacity.

No one was monitoring the CCTV cameras at the time the bombs were planted. But police are hopeful about getting some leads from the functioning

cameras.

At a security review meeting held earlier in July, police personnel deployed at the site had complained about CCTV cameras not working.

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