CM Pinarayi Vijayan's hoarding found with crude bombs

KOZHIKODE

: Parts of the election cut-out of chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan put up at Mambaram which was vandalized recently was found along with crude bombs inside a bush from a vacant land near Mambaram on Thursday.

Police and bomb squad recovered as many as four steel bombs, two plastic bombs, gun powder another material used for making crude bombs along with the cut-out parts during the inspections conducted in the area. It was found concealed in the bush near the Mambaram telephone exchange.

The huge cut-out of Vijayan erected in a ground near the Thalassery-Anjarakandy road near Mabaram bridge was found destroyed on Monday just before the polls.

CPM leaders had alleged that the cut-out was destroyed as part of a planned attempt to create violence during the elections. Police had registered a case on the basis of the complaint lodged by LDF Dharmadam mandalam committee.

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sub-inspector Anil Kumar, bomb squad SI Sasidharan were part of the team which recovered the bombs.