In an unusual step, the city police carried out two minor blasts with low intensity explosives substances here at Ramkote on Friday as part of a campaign to sensitise all educational institutions on security issues.
The police had initiated a security awareness programme involving different sections of society a month ago following a terror alert. In the backdrop of recent terror attack in Peshawar of Pakistan, they intensified their efforts by convening a meeting with representatives of all educational institutions in Central Zone.
They chose Central Zone as it houses highly protected like AP and Telangana Secretariats and the State Legislatures. Bomb disposal squad Inspector Naga Sai, who diffused an unexploded Improvised Explosive Device at Mecca Masjid in 2007 after terrorists carried out a bomb blast, enlightened how terror operatives plant explosives at public places. A lunch box or an unclaimed bag lying in a corner could also contain the IED and endanger lives of all, he said. Explaining further, he came down from the dais, picked up a lunch box on the floor and opened it.
While the participants, mostly middle-aged and elders, expected that he would show them a live bomb inside but the box blew up. “If you open unclaimed objects without alerting police, this might happen in your hands. I used five milligrams of low explosives for this explosion. Imagine our fate if huge RDX is used for explosion,” he told the shocked viewers.
Even as the viewers recovered from the reverberations and deafening sound, Central zone DCP V.B. Kamalasan Reddy told them it was only a demonstration to understand intensity of such possible attacks. He took the opportunity to emphasise the need for all schools to install CCTV cameras and adequate security systems.
