The suicide bomber in October 2022 Coimbatore blast, Jameesha Mubeen, and two of his relatives had purchased 190 kg of explosive material – both through e-commerce websites and offline – to make a potent Improvised Explosive Device (IED) for the attack, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has said in its charge sheet.
Mubeen and his maternal cousins, Mohammad Asarutheen and Afsar Khan, had also procured unknown quantities of charcoal, aluminium powder, matchboxes, and chemical benzaldehyde dimethyl acetal, besides four cylinders and three drums for making the bomb, said the charge sheet filed on April 20.
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Source: The Hindustan Times
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