The back-to-back country bomb-making accidents in Kannur and Thiruvananthapuram in the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections have alerted the police to the possible illegal diversion of low-grade explosives for criminal purposes.
A top official said the current police inspections were based on “all suspected places and suspected persons, based on current intelligence and past incidents” to interdict potential bomb-makers and also shut down secret and unsafe fireworks-making units.
The separate blasts claimed the life of one person in Kannur and injured four others, two of them in Thiruvananthapuram.
