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Terrorist group Indian Mujahideen (IM) has plans to cause maximum damage to life and property by using 'sticky bombs' on oil tankers in India. The plan is to use magnetic explosive device on oil tankers to maximize the terror strike, said counter-terror officials based on the revelations made by Yasin Bhatkal, founder of IM.

Bhatkal reportedly revealed that IM has plans to make a goods train transporting oil tankers into a mega-bomb, according to reports in HT. When one wagon, planted with IED (improvised explosive device), explodes it will cause a chain reaction as other wagons will also blow up and the goods train carrying oil tankers will cause a big firestorm. The official further stated that such a train bomb can cause unimaginable devastations at a busy railway station.

Sticky bombs have been widely used in Afghanistan and in Iraq leaving widescale devastation during the latter part of US occupation in these countries. They are rare in India, only instance of its use was in Delhi, when an Israeli embassy car was badly damaged, on February 13, 2012. Sticky bombs are more lethal than IEDs and also difficult to detect.

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