Firing Train News Today

A railway protection force constable, Chetan Singh, who is accused of killing his senior colleague and three passengers on a moving train, has had his police remand extended by a court in Maharashtra. The remand has been extended until 11 August following a request from the Government Railway Police who need extra time to identify witnesses and review CCTV footage.

Still inside of the partially collapsed hotel. i want to go now to the four were bomb technician. we were looking at the pictures played over and over what the technicians did on site with those explosive devices around the weak points of the crane they were supposed to collapse like an umbrella but what happened one just toppled over to the side of the building while another is just left hanging on the other side so what went wrong? >> there is a possibility one of the charges did not function ...

Go out and determine if there are surveillance cameras in those areas and people, unabomb, postal workers at stations remembered them because of the excessive postage and the strapping tape and using that filament tape is a very future thing. it obviously is used -- was used by the unabomber to keep the firing train intact until the recipient opened the package at which time the firing train would be the electrical -- circuit would be complete and the package would detonate so theres a lot of si...

Interest in finding out if these devices were made by the same person, if theyre connected. what else are they looking for when they open these up and search? >> literally the devil is in the details. meaning the specificity of the components, the firing train, how wires are cut, how theyre crimped. the black powder, where it originated from. the degree of sophistication and lets face it, none of these devices have detonated yet. the real concern from a law enforcement perspective not to panic a...

Heard, the thing thats important to remember, too, just because you might have had functional components doesnt necessarily mean that you actually have a device that had a correct firing train. so the motive could have been nothing more than panic to be discovered. look, most people know you cant mail package bombs to a former president without getting caught. so the message may be nothing more than to resonate. but the forensics based on my experience in working the package bomb cases will lead...

For example, he loved little cassio watch timers as part of his firing train when he built the actual bomb. in this case, now that we have got a residence where the bomber was, the explosive teams are going to be able to go in and look for those unique signatures to connect all the dots to this bomber. and, they are going to find in a pattern of life exactly what has driven this man to do this. im pretty confident of that. steve: do you think, fred, given the interest people have in this line of...