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His pal, a prison as effectively, managed to flee with solely minor wounds, TOI reported.
A number of residents have been alarmed by the loud explosion that occurred within the neighbourhood. Ambattur police responded rapidly to the scene and gathered the stays of the units that had exploded primarily based on info from the locals.
One in every of them has been detained, whereas the opposite remains to be receiving medical care. In response to the police, the 2 males turned mates whereas doing time in jail collectively a couple of years in the past. The 2 males used to often meet after every was launched from jail in 2017.
At Vijayakumar’s dwelling in Venkateshwara Nagar, Ambattur’s Munusamy Pillai Avenue, they have been each onerous at work making bombs on Thursday. They made the selfmade bombs out of crackers that they had bought from a retailer and explosive powder. When it unintentionally exploded, that they had simply completed constructing the primary bomb and Karthick was engaged on the second.
Karthick’s arms sustained vital injury on account of the hit, while Vijayakumar’s arms solely sustained slight injury.
The medical professionals attending to him say that he may lose each of his arms.
Vijayakumar was detained by police on Sunday whereas Karthick remains to be receiving therapy. He shall be detained after he recovers, in response to the police.
Police consider that regardless of the 2 males’s claims that they manufactured the bombs for their very own security, they really deliberate a homicide to make use of the selfmade bombs to kill an opponent.