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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 as designed when you deal with explosives there are always variables possibly a shockwave from the i...
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 there's a lot of similarities. >> and bob, there are at least ten potential bombs that we know of that were sent. coul...
Interest in finding out if these devices were made by the same person, if they're 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 they're crimped. the black powder, where it originated from. the degree of sophistication and let's face it, none of these devices have detonated yet. the real concern from a law enforcement perspective not to panic anybody would be how many more are out there? it has been my experience with bomb makers they'll p...
Heard, the thing that's important to remember, too, just because you might have had functional components doesn't 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 can't 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 to the identification of the suspect very similar to the recent austin bomber that we had down h...