According to Kudiyanmala police at Kannur district in Kerala 2 children, who are also relatives and one of them the son of a local RSS functionary, were seriously injured when a country-made bomb, apparently stocked there, exploded .
During a raid later in the house of Shibu, who is a taluk-level functionary of the RSS. Police also recovered weapons and raw materials to make bomb from the house inside the compound of the house at Naduvil in the hilly areas of the district on Saturday afternoon.
The explosion of bomb happened around 1.30 pm when the two kids, identified as Gokul (7), son of Muthiramala Shibhu, who is an RSS functionary, and Kajinraj (12), son of Kumar, both residents of the same locality in Naduvil, were removing miscellaneous things from around the compound of the house of Shibu, at the time they were part of making a cage for the birds.
While doing that the boys stood on something and it exploded causing injury, said police. Kajin is the son of a relative who is also a neighbour of Shibu.
On getting the information, the police and the bomb squad reached the spot and conducted a search in which the raw materials including gunpowder and aluminium powder, as also a few swords and knives, and a hacker were recovered from the house.
The country bombs and bomb making materials in the house of Shibu, who is a taluk-level functionary of the RSS has send shock waves in the state
Police have strengthened vigil following the incident and the two boys have been admitted in the hospital.
