Months after the cylinder bomb blasts in Coimbatore and Mangalore, the terror organisation, the Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISKP) has claimed responsibility for both the acts.
Islamic State in Khorasan Province (ISKP) is a terrorist organisation designated by the UN. It made the claims in the latest issue of its propaganda magazine ‘Voice of Khurasan’ released on Saturday. In the same issue, the organisation also called out to its “operatives” in the Southern part of India to wage a war against Hindus and the country’s ruling BJP.
“Do you not consider our attacks in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, and Karnataka, in Bangalore [the author of the magazine wrote Bangalore instead of Mangaluru], where our brothers took revenge for the honour of our religion and terrorised kufar [non-Muslims and disbelievers] and its followers?” the magazine reads.
During the wee hours of the day before Deebavali in 2022, Jamesha Mubeen, a 29-year old was killed when a car carrying LPG cylinders exploded near the Kottai Easwaran temple in Coimbatore. The blast occurred around 4 am in the Ukkadam area.
This was suspected as an act of terror by Tamil Nadu BJP President K Annamalai. He called it an intelligence failure and was vocal about the laxity in the DMK Government’s approach to the case that was trivialised as a mere ‘gas cylinder blast’.
The NIA investigation revealed that the blast was indeed meant to be a terror attack. In its statement, the NIA said “According to preliminary investigations, the accused Jamesha Mubeen, after taking bayath / oath to ISIS was planning to carry out suicidal attacks and cause extensive damage to symbols and monuments of a particular religious faith and with the intention to strike terror among a particular section of a community.”
It was also found that one of the accused was linked to the 1998 CBE serial blast convicts.
The NIA investigation and the present statement by IS Khorasan has vindicated the fact that the blast was indeed a terror act.
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