Six teams of police have been formed to investigate the matter.
Chennai:
Five people have been arrested for their alleged role in a car blast outside a temple in Coimbatore on Sunday in which one person died.
Jamisha Mubeen died in the early hours of Sunday when one of the two cylinders in her car exploded near a temple in Ukkadam area. Police investigation suspects that he may have terrorist links after a huge quantity of explosives was found from his house.
Investigators claim that Jameesha Mubeen was helped by three of her friends – Nawaz Ismail, Firoz Ismail and Mohammad Riaz – to load cylinders and low-intensity explosive material into the car despite knowing about her plans.
Another suspect, Mohammad Azharuddin, police say, was involved in the coordination, while another person, Thalka, a scrap dealer, had given an old Maruti car free of cost for the operation.
A video that NDTV cannot independently verify also shows what appears to be a covered cylinder being taken from a house.
Police have recovered explosive chemicals from Jamisha Mubeen’s house. Investigators say the explosion that killed the carrier did not appear to be a suicide mission. However, he suspects that the intention was to cause major damage and that the explosion may have been an accident.
In 2019, Jamisha Mubeen was questioned by the National Investigation Agency, or NIA, for her alleged links with a man arrested in Kerala, the suspected kingpin of the Colombo Easter bombings, which killed at least 250 people.
Ever since Jamisha Mubeen, who police say is a self-radicalised man, lies less and suspects that she has received help from certain groups as well.
Tamil BJP chief K Annamalai called the blast a “never seen before suicide attack under the DMK regime” and questioned Chief Minister MK Stalin’s silence on the matter.
“Will you wait until the loss of life,” he asked.
Six teams of police have been formed to investigate the matter.