Kudankulam: A day after an explosion at a village near Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant here claimed six lives; police formed a team to probe it and stepped up security even as two live bombs were recovered from the area.
A special team would probe the explosion. Two live bombs had been recovered from the site, which have been sent for forensic tests, Tirunelvei SP Vijendra Bidari said.
Top police sources said anti-nuclear activists including SP Uthayakumar, coordinator of the People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy, his associates Pushparayan, Mukilan and some others, have been booked under different sections of IPC and Explosive Substances Act, for the incident.
Cases were registered for offences, including culpable homicide not amounting to murder and criminal conspiracy among others, they added.
A country-made bomb had gone off “accidentally” at around 6.40 PM yesterday when some miscreants were making the explosive in their hut in Idinathakarai Tsunami colony, about 15 km from the KNPP.
