Bomb-like device found on road which Mamata was to take

April 18, 2014 19:03

The police today recovered a bomb-like device from under a culvert on the Suri-Bolpur road barely half an hour before Trinamool Congress chief Mamata was to pass through it to address a rally here.

Coming a day after her hotel room in Malda caught fire, the device was fitted under a culvert and its wires were partly visible, the Birbhum police superintendent RM Khan said.

The chief minister, however, reached Suri from Nalhati by helicopter. The SP said that during security check, a police team found the device, including two gelatin sticks, two detonators, 12 batteries and a charger. "We have detained five persons from adjacent areas for interrogation," he said.

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