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Rameshwaram Cafe blast: NIA conducts spot inspection along with accused

NIA visited the blast site along with 2 accused amid heavy police presence

(File) Police personnel deployed outside Rameshwaram Cafe where blast occurred | PTI

The National Investigation Agency probing the Rameshwaram Cafe blast visited the site where the explosion occurred on Monday and conducted a spot investigation along with two accused in the case. The agency has so far arrested five persons in connection with the case.

The agency probing the explosion visited the blast site during the early hours of Monday as part of their investigation. "A team of NIA probing the Rameshwaram Cafe blast came here this morning at the Cafe for spot inspection along with two of the accused as part of their internal investigation into the case," a police source told PTI. Police personnel were deployed outside the cafe and the surrounding area was barricaded for the probe on Monday.

The NIA has conducted extensive searches at more than 29 locations across the country as part of the probe into the blast which occurred on March 1. The agency arrested two accused in the case--mastermind Adbul Matheen Ahmed Taahaa and his accomplice Mussavir Hussain Shazib--from Kolkata on April 12 from their hideout in Kolkata. The accused were staying under false identities.

A low-intensity blast occurred in Bengaluru’s famous eatery in Brookefield on March 1. As many as nine people, including seven customers, were injured in the blast. A woman who was sitting near the bag sustained grievous injuries.