Thursday, 31 October 2013

Patna blasts suspect escapes from NIA custody

PATNA: Mehre Alam, one of the suspects in Patna serial blasts case, escaped from the National Investigation Agency custody on Thursday, according to reports.

A CNN IBN report suggests that Alam escaped during questioning at a safe house near Muzaffarpur station. Alam was being questioned in the NIA custody for the last ten hours.

The report adds that Alam requested the interrogators to allow him to use the wash room. However no official accompanied him to the wash room and the suspect used the opportunity to flee the custody.
Alam was detained as investigators had earlier raided several places in Bihar to search for the blasts suspects. He was detained by the NIA from Darbhanga.
Six people were killed and 83 others injured as seven bombs exploded in Patna Sunday last.
The first of the blasts ripped through a toilet around 10 a.m. at the railway station in the heart of the city, killing one person and wounding another.
After an hour, by which time Modi had reached Patna but was not yet at Gandhi Maidan, the venue of the rally, four explosions occurred inside the maidan. Two bombs exploded in the vicinity of the maidan, spreading panic. (With inputs from agencies)


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