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RDX is the culprit in Mumbai twin blasts: Krishnamurthy
Mumbai, Aug 27: Forensic experts have found use of RDX in the twin car bomb blasts that rocked the city on Monday killing 52 people and injuring over 130.
Mumbai, Aug 27: Forensic experts have found use of RDX in the twin car bomb blasts that rocked the city on Monday killing 52 people and injuring over 130.
Director of state forensic laboratory Dr Rukmini
Krishnamurthy told their report was based on the samples
collected immediately after the blasts at the Gateway of India
and Zaveri Bazar.
"On the face of it, it does not appear to have had any `external missiles' as was the case in 1993 serial blasts," she said.
"The explosive must have been kept in the dicky of the taxis used in the blasts and the CNG cylinders added to the high-explosive device's impact," she said.
The remnants of the CNG gas cylinders were found in both the sites thereby confirming that the CNG gas added to the impact of the blast, she said.
The tissues of some of the mutilated bodies where identification by the relatives was impossible, have been sent to the forensic lab by the police for identification by DNA fingerprinting technique, Krishnamurthy said.
Bureau Report
"On the face of it, it does not appear to have had any `external missiles' as was the case in 1993 serial blasts," she said.
"The explosive must have been kept in the dicky of the taxis used in the blasts and the CNG cylinders added to the high-explosive device's impact," she said.
The remnants of the CNG gas cylinders were found in both the sites thereby confirming that the CNG gas added to the impact of the blast, she said.
The tissues of some of the mutilated bodies where identification by the relatives was impossible, have been sent to the forensic lab by the police for identification by DNA fingerprinting technique, Krishnamurthy said.
Bureau Report