Probe into Thevaram explosion conducted

BODI:  Preliminary inquiries into the explosion that took place near Thevaram in Theni district on Monday, that left two persons dead, had revealed that the object that exploded might be a rocket launcher. Gunasekarapandian, a scrap iron dealer of Nadar North Street in Thevaram, was attempting to dismantle the barrel-shaped object with a cone head when it exploded, killing him and his neighbour Pavunthai. Police who conducted preliminary investigations on Tuesday after collecting the pieces of sharpnel, felt that the object that exploded might be a rocket launcher.They also felt that some army personnel might have brought the rocket launcher and sold it as scrap. SP Praveenkumar Abinabu said that the shrapnel that exploded has been sent to the forensic laboratory  and its exact nature would be known only after that, he said.