Tirupati, Oct 02: A day after Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and a few others were injured in mine blasts, a bomb disposal squad today unearthed nearly one dozen claymore mines planted in a stretch of 200 metres on the second Ghat Road leading to the Lord Venkateswara shrine. The mines, planted at intervals of 10 feet, were detected by the bomb disposal squad with the help of sniffer dogs, police sources said.
The mines might have been planted about six months ago with a view to wipe out the entire convoy of the Chief Minister, they said. Naidu usually visited the shrine to offer "silk vastrams" to the Lord on the eve of "garuda seva" annually.
The sources said only four mines went off yesterday. If all of them had exploded then it could have been disastrous to the entire convoy. The mines have been removed and taken to an undisclosed place. Bureau Report