Lucknow, April 16: The Anti-Terrorist Squad of the Uttar Pradesh police would look into yesterday’s recovery of explosive devices from Sampark Kranti express train at the Mahoba railway station.
ADG law and order, Brij Lal said ATS has been asked to investigate and it is looking for the people who had planted the device in the train.
On the nature of the bomb, he said Allahabad police had verified that they were gelatin sticks with loose wires.
The device was found in a sleeper coach of Delhi-bound Manikpur-Hazrat Nizamuddin Express yesterday.
When the train reached Mahoba station, passengers had raised an alarm that a bomb-like device had been planted in the toilet of the coach.
–Agencies