Patna: Ainul alias Tarique, the injured terror suspect in the Patna blasts has succumbed to injuries. The suspect was critically injured when he was planting a bomb in one of the locations much before Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi was scheduled to begin Hunkar rally in the state capital.
"Ainul died late Thursday," said a police official.
Arun Kumar, director of the Patna-based Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, where Ainul was admitted with splinter injuries to his brain, confirmed that he was dead.
"After battling for life for over five days, he succumbed to serious injuries in his brain," Kumar said.
According to police officials, Ainul was admitted to the hospital here as he was found crying in pain near the railway station toilet after the bomb exploded when he was trying to fix it or fit a timer.
Arun Kumar said that before his identity was disclosed by the police, he was believed to be a victim.
"With a splinter lodged in his brain, the chances of his recovery were very poor. He was unconscious and not responding to medication after being admitted to hospital," Kumar said.
Six people were killed and 83 injured in seven bomb blasts in Patna.
Six of the seven blasts took place Sunday at Patna's Gandhi Maidan before Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi was to address a rally. The seventh explosion was at the railway station.
Meanwhile, a suspect escaped from National Investigation Agency's custody on Wednesday night. The suspect Meher Alam escaped during questioning near Muzaffarpur railway station. He was among the seven people detained in connection with the Patna serial blasts in which six people were killed and over 80 others injured.
Alam was being questioned about the Sunday blasts before and during Bharatiya Janata Party's Hunkar rally in Patna when he requested his interrogators to let him use the wash room. In a shocking security lapse, no official accompanied him to the wash room and Alam used the opportunity to escape through the window. When he did not return after a long time, the officials broke open the door to find that he was missing.
The first blast ripped through a toilet at around 9:15 am at the newly built platform 10 of Patna railway station, killing one person and wounding another. After an hour, by which time Modi had reached Patna, four explosions took place in quick successions near the Hunkar rally venue Gandhi Maidan, killing four others and causing a lot of panic. The second blast took place at Eliphiston cinema hall followed by the other explosions near the rally venue.
(with inputs from IANS)
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