Live! Terror attack planned on Modi's Kanpur rally too: Police

October 29, 2013 23:12

Two days after serial blasts targeted Narendra Modi's Patna rally, UP police today said they had received intelligence inputs about terrorists plotting to attack the leader's October 19 rally in Kanpur.

"Three days before Narendra Modi's rally here, the police had received an alert from IB that three terrorists were present in the city and were planning to attack the rally. They could have used rocket launcher and IED," Kanpur SSP Yashaswi Yadav told reporters today.

The SSP claimed that the terrorists had reached the city and even recced the venue of the rally.

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