Madurai: A bomb weighing seven kgs was found on the outskirts of Madurai just an hour before senior BJP leader LK Advani was meant to travel over the bridge underneath which the Improvised Explosive Device was placed.
The bomb was discovered by locals in the village of Alampatti, 30 km from Madurai, where Mr Advani launched Phase 2 of his nation-wide yatra or tour this morning.
The police was alerted and found the bomb linked to a 50-feet-long wire that ran through a pool of water and was hooked up to a battery hidden near a palm tree. “I came here to pick up the remains of firecrackers (from Diwali)”, said Selvaraj. “I stumbled upon a wire which ran all the way to a tree.”
As a bomb disposal squad searched the area, Mr Advani’s route to Kerala from Tamil Nadu was altered to skip the Almatti road where the bomb was found.
Read more at: NDTV
