Delhi: Bag Containing IED Found In Buidling In Old Seemapuri Area

The bomb disposal squad has reached the spot to carry forward further investigation into the matter, ANI reported.

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New Delhi: An Improvised explosive device (IED) was found inside a bag at a building in Old Seemapuri area of Delhi on Thursday. The area has been cordoned off.

A call about a suspicious item detected in a building in Seemapuri was received around 2 pm and special cell teams were rushed to the spot, PTI reported quoting officials. A fire tender, NSG bomb squad and the Forensic Science Laboratory team was called to the spot.

"During the Ghazipur RDX case investigation, the Special Cell got information about this house in Old Seemapuri," Delhi Police sources said, ANI reported.

"When Special Cell team reached here, this house was closed and a suspicious bag was found. Fire department and NSG were informed to reach the spot," sources added.

The bag containing IED was picked up by the NSG bomb disposal squad from the second floor of the building. It will be defused at a safe location, PTI reported.

"Those living in the area where the explosive has been found have been vacated. Police told us that they have come to know about tenants living in that house who are now absconding," PTI quoted a local living in the area as saying.

In January, an IED stuffed with RDX and ammonium nitrate was found inside an unattended bag at the Ghazipur flower market in Delhi but it was later defused. The NSG personnel conducted a controlled explosion to neutralise the explosive.

The NSG, in its final post-blast investigation report, said that the IED found in Delhi's Ghazipur flower market on January 14 had ammonium nitrate and RDX as its components and a timer was attached to it.

“The IED contained ammonium nitrate, RDX, a 9-volt battery, iron pieces that could act as shrapnel during an explosion and had a timer device attached to it,” the NSG report submitted to the Delhi Police said.

The RDX was used as the core explosive in the IED but it did not blow off due to a “glitch” in the circuit, the report added. The bomb was placed at the main gate of the flower market.

The incident had happened ahead of Republic Day celebrations on January 26.