Howrah (WB): In a security scare in West Bengal, a bag filled with explosives has been found at Howrah railway station. The explosives were detonated in controlled atmosphere by a bomb defusal squad of the state CID.
According to preliminary reports, the explosive material can be used in the manufacture of crude land mines. The bag was lying abandoned at the station. Officials are suspecting that the bag was transported from Secunderabad by the Howrah-Falaknuma Express.
A senior CID official said that unclaimed pipe-like objects recovered from a vacant compartment of Howrah-Secunderabad Falaknama Express at Howrah Station were found to be low-intensity landmines.
Taking over the case from Howrah GRP, the CID thoroughly examined the items found in the unclaimed baggage.
The close circuit TVs of the station's platform, where the train arrived on Tuesday night was also being monitored to see if the carrier of the bags could be identified. The five-six unclaimed pipe-like objects, wrapped in a polythene sheet in two bags, were found from a vacant general compartment of the long distance train after it arrived at Howrah Station on Tuesday night.
A senior GRP official earlier said the packet was discovered by the railway staff during a routine check before cleaning the coach once the train arrived at platform 17. The movement of local and long distance trains from different platforms in the busy railway junction remained unaffected.
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