Threat to blow up Mumbai-Howrah mail received
Bomb blast threat was issued in a train going from Mumbai to Howrah. After which the investigating agencies came into alert mode. A search operation was conducted in the Mumbai-Howrah mail train. The bomb threat was given on social media platform X. In a social media post, there was a threat of blast in Nashik through a timer bomb. In this X-post, abusive words were used for Maharashtra Police. After the bomb blast incident, the Mumbai-Howrah Mail was stopped and searched at Jalgaon at 4 am on Monday. After about two hours of intensive investigation, the security personnel did not find anything suspicious. In such a situation, the threat of finding a bomb has proved to be a mere rumour. Let us tell you that a threat to blow up the train was made through an account named Fazaluddin. It was written in the threat, “Will you people cry tears of blood this morning, O Hindustani Railways? Today a bomb has been planted in the flight and also in train 12809. There will be a big blast before reaching Nashik.”
Last week there was a threat to blow up the Purushottam Express train.
Last week too, the Puri-New Delhi Purushottam Express was delayed by more than three hours due to a bomb threat at Tundla railway station in Uttar Pradesh. After this news came that suspected terrorists were traveling with explosives in the train. This alert was received from the account of an X (formerly Twitter) user. However, later after thorough investigation, this also proved to be a rumor.
(Report by Anamika Gaur)