Coimbatore blast a botched suicide attack?

The 29-year-old engineer the wheel of a car that exploded in front of a temple in Coimbatore last Sunday was possibly a suicide bomber whose relative inexperience in handling explosives spared the locality the damage he might have intended to cause, according to investigators, reports Subburaj A.

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A witness told the police the car blew up soon after Jameesha Mubin stopped in front of the Sangameswara temple at 4 am. Rows of houses along the road leading to the shrine could have been affected had the explosion, caused by an LPG cylinder in the vehicle, occurred in the manner it had been planned, the investigators said. 

TN 'suicide bomber' planned to hit temple, homes: NIA sleuths

'Inexperience In Handling Explosives Spared Area Of Devastation'

Coimbatore: The 29-year-old engineering graduate killed at the wheel of a car that exploded in front of a temple in Coimbatore last Sunday was possibly a suicide bomber whose relative inexperience in handling explosives spared the locality the damage he might have intended to cause, investigators said on Friday as the NIA chased more evidence to connect the dots.