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Car laden with 100 kgs deadly RDX seized in Kashmir

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Srinagar, July 27, IRNA
India-Kashmir
Death and devastation on a large scale was averted Tuesday when the police recovered 100 kilograms of RDX from a stolen Maruti car near Srinagar in the evening. The driver of the car was apprehended while two other occupants managed to escape, a top police officer said, reports IRNA's correspondent.

"The RDX was concealed in the car and was fitted with two live grenades fixed to detonators," Inspector General of Police, Kashmir, Javed Mukhdoomi, said at a hurriedly-called press conference Tuesday evening. A wireless set was also found along with the explosives.

"There is a possibility that the car was being driven to Srinagar for a bombing," he said, adding that a major tragedy had been averted.

The recovery was made during routine checking near Magam when a blue Maruti 800 was stopped by the police at around 6 P.M Tuesday evening.

The three occupants of the car made a break for it, but one of them, the driver, identified as Zahoor Ahmad of Hanjiwera, Pattan, was caught at Mazhama on the Srinagar-Magam road after the police gave him a chase, the IGP said.The car (original registration number JKE 6394) was fitted with a false number plate (DL3C 8177). It had been stolen a few days ago from Aripathan, and an FIR stands lodged in the Beeru police station, the IGP said. The interrogation of the driver was going on.

With spurt in militant activities, Jammu and Kashmir police has meanwhile sought help from the people to thwart militants' plans by informing the them about suspicious vehicles and objects found anywhere. The appeal was made through hand-bills in Urdu distributed here, where three powerful car bomb explosions claimed the lives of 15 people, mostly armymen, and injured scores of others in the last two months.

The latest step aimed at scuttling designs of the militants comes barely a week after militants detonated an explosive-laden car at high-security Church Lane on July 20 which left three army personnel and a civilian dead and 17 injured.

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