A country-made bomb was thrown at the Chakkarakkal police station here in the early hours of Thursday.
The police said the bomb thrown by a group of people that reached the spot in motorcycles exploded on the road close to the police station premises.
The incident occurred at 4.15 a.m. There was no injury to anyone or damage to the station building. As the road ends near the police station, the police were suspected to be the target of attack, the police said.
Retaliation suspected
Police sources said the attack was suspected to be retaliation for the raids they conducted in the area earlier in the midnight following an incident of attack.
Though the police said that they got some clues about those who threw the bomb targeting the police station, they refused to say whether the culprits were political workers. The Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in separate statements alleged that local ‘criminals’ loyal to the CPI(M) were behind the attack.
In CM’s constituency
District Congress Committee president K. Surendran said after visiting the police station that the bomb attack on the police station followed the police raids on CPI(M) workers’ houses. He said that police officers were under pressure from the government not to book real culprits, though the incident occurred in the constituency of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. The incident was the latest example of even the police force remaining as mute witness to CPI(M) workers taking law into their hands, he said. The BJP district committee in its statement said that the incident was clear evidence that even the police personnel were not safe under the Left Democratic Front (LDF) rule.
No injury to anyone or damage to the station building in the attack carried out early in the morning.
