Team Herald
MARGAO: Police tracked two bombs and disposed them off but could not arrest anyone of those who planted the bombs at Margao Municipal Council this evening in a mock drill that is being undertaken to check the preparedness of the police force.
At around 4.55 pm the police received a call that a bomb has been placed at the Margao Municipal Council and they immediately swung into action and discovered the bomb placed at the Municipal Engineer’s office on the ground floor.
Incidentally the Municipal Engineer’s office is usually locked whenever the Engineer is not in the cabin and there is always somebody or the other seated in the chair outside his office. Yet the police could not trace the person who left the bomb there.
The seized packed was then disposed off scientifically in the open space in the municipal garden.
It may be recalled that yesterday at Mobor beach Cavelossim, police personnel arrested four suspected persons and recovered some incriminating items from them though there were no explosives in a similar mock drill.
At around 7.10 am the police personnel apprehended a suspected rubber boat named ‘Gemini” and arrested four persons from it and found one bag with four suspicious packets.
A team from Verna Police station investigated the contents of the bag and found 5 mobile phones, 3 mobile charges, 1 ear phone and 13 iron nails in the packets.
