Over 54 detonators were found outside platform number 1 of Kalyan railway station in Mumbai on Wednesday. Railway police, local police, and bomb squad have reached the spot.
‘This is an electronic detonator that is used to break mountains’, according to the reports. Police are searching for where it reached near the railway station, if someone forgot it or someone left it here deliberately.
They are scanning CCTV footage near the Kalyan railway station and the investigation into this matter is underway.
“More than 50 detonators in two boxes were found abandoned on a platform at Kalyan railway station in Thane district’, a Government Railway Police (GRP) official said.
The official said the boxes were identified by the GRP lying unattended on platform No. 1 of the crowded station on the Central Railway (CR) route following which a dog squad and Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad (BDDS) personnel were immediately called to the spot.
‘Boxes were taken into custody by the BDDS team and on opening found as many as 54 detonators (a device containing a small amount of explosive) inside them’, he said.
The Kalyan GRP has launched an investigation though they were yet to register a case in connection with the seizure, said the official.
Senior police officials, including Thane city cops, visited the spot where the detonators were found.
Generally, detonators are used in Thane district for illegally catching fish in lakes and also for carrying out blasting operations in quarries.
Detonators are used to send shock waves through the water, killing fish which are then collected. Kalyan railway station on Mumbai city’s outskirts performs duties for passengers of both long-distance as well as suburban trains and is usually very crowded.
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