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Simple electrical switching device used to activate killer bomb ?
MADRAS, May 24 : Police Investigating the bomb blast at Sriperumpudur. near Madras, which killed Rajiv Gandhi on Tuesday night. arc working on a new theory that a simple switching device was used to activate the bomb strapped to the suicide squad's back.
Police sources told PT1 here today that earlier specula tlon that a remote control device was used to detonate the bomb might be off the mark as it would be difficult for the woman to carry both the bomb and remote control device on her person.
The suicide squad theory has gained ground with rccov ery of some pieces of a belt which, police felt, must have been strapped to the back of the woman to hold the explosives.
Police sources said a person determined to commit suicide in the blast attempt must have found it easier to use a switch with a simple mechanism to immediately detonate the bomb on gaining access to Gandhi.
Police sources said the switch would have to be merely shifted on the On' position to bring about an Im-mediate explosion.
The woman must have been
waiting for an opportunity to come near Gandhi and. the moment she did so. had changed the switch, to the On position, the resultant blast Instantaneously killing her along with Gandhi, so goes this theory which according to the sources, is the most plausible one.
According to sketchy reports reaching' police, some eye-witnesses have described the woman with dark complexion and dressed in a shalwar-kammez which might have been chosen to conceal the belt with the explosives and the switch.
However, the sources said the investigators had an open mind' and had not ruled out the possibilities, like involvement of one or two persons in the blast, or concealment of a bomb in a bouquet or a gift -box offered to Gandhi.
Mercenary approached
The Indian High Commission is checking with the British authorities the antecedents of a British mercenary who claimed that some people had approached him about two months ago to carry out the assassination of Gartdht according to a message from London.
One Kevin Mason (53). who claims to be an ex Special Air Services personnel trained in the use of explosives, told the Indian High Commission officials and the Indian media In London that he had held a couple of meetings with these people in a central London hotel in Kensington and demanded haff a million pounds to execute the operations.
Those people had offered him only 100.000 pounds and wanted the assassination to be carried out at the time of the mid-term election In India In
the month of May. The deal fell through and he reported the matter to his friends in the British Intelligence. Mason said.
Mason who spoke to the High Commission officials and the Indian mediamen over telephone In the past two days said Britain was the "main place* for supply of arms to mercenaries and It was quite possible that the people who wanted to kill Gandhi might have approached some other British mercenaries like him.
He claimed having worked
as a mercenary tn the Middle East and some countries In southern America.
The ex-SAS man said T am a mercenary and can undertake such operations In other parts of the world. But I can't break the British law as I am a British citizen.* He claimed to have trained, along with several other ex-SAS personnel, some militant groups.
According to him Rajiv's killers might have used a powerful Semtex time device or a powerful remote-controlled