NIA raids around 60 locations across TN, Karnataka and Kerala
Around 60 locations across Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala are being searched by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in a massive crackdown on suspects having links with banned terror outfit ISIS, sources have said.
Searches are being carried out in connection with last year’s blasts in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore and Karnataka’s Mangaluru.
On October 23 last year, Jamesha Mubeen, a suspected terrorist, was killed after a gas cylinder in the car he was travelling in exploded in front of Kottai Eswaran Temple at Kottaimedu in the communally sensitive Ukkdam area.
The explosion that happened a day before the Diwali festival was termed as ‘Lone wolf’ attack.