Rava idli, timer, bus: Inside the IED operation at Bengaluru’s Rameshwaram cafe
The east Bengaluru suburb of Kundalahalli – home to a cluster of tech parks – was in for shock on March 1 afternoon. At 12:55 pm, as the lunch crowd trickled in at the popular Rameshwaram cafe, an explosion was heard.
CCTV visuals showed plumes of smoke and panic in the moments that followed the blast with customers and staff trying to flee the scene. Some of the customers – clothes bloodied and ripped, blood-smeared faces – stood a few metres away from the restaurant, trying to process what they’d just witnessed. They were administered first-aid as ambulances wailed and fire engines arrived.
As many as 10 people were injured and none are in critical condition. Police are investigating the motives and perpetrators behind the low-intensity Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast. Though initially the explosion was suspected to have been caused by a cylinder leak, it was later ruled out.
Bengaluru: 9 injured in explosion at Rameshwaram cafe, NIA to visit site; IED usage suspected
Police officials said that 10 people, including hotel staff and customers, were injured in the bomb blast that occurred between 12:50 pm and 1 pm, and a case under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, and the Explosive Substances Act has been registered at the HAL police station.
