Fifty gundu (locally-made high-impact crackers), eight litres of petrol, a basic remote, a simple circuit and YouTube tutorial were all that required for the accused to assemble crude Improvised Explosives Devices (IEDs) to trigger twin blasts at a crowded Jehovah’s Witnesses prayer convention at Kalamassery that sent shock waves beyond the borders of the State on Sunday.
Interrogation of the lone accused Martin V.D,. a resident of Thammanam, left the special investigation team probing the blast case almost in sheer disbelief by the simplicity and ingenuity with which he created mayhem that left three dead and scores with burn injuries.
What was even more intriguing was how he almost spared the police the hard work of collecting evidence as he produced almost the entire ambit of self-incriminating evidence, including video shot using his mobile of triggering the blast using the remote.
