Friday, April 9, 2010

Kingfisher Airlines Bomb suspect Kills Self

The crude bomb found aboard a Kingfisher Airlines flight in Thiruvananthapuram airport last month has claimed its first casualty.
Twenty-six-year old Sunil Lawrence, a contract cleaner at the airport killed himself after being questioned by the police and losing his job over the incident.
His suicide note says he decided to kill himself because he couldn’t prove his innocence.
Sunil's uncle Varghese said, “He was very moody and depressed after the incident though he was let off. Shortly before he hung himself, he had got a phone call. Police should look into this.”

Sunil was working for the same company of which a staffer, Rajashekharan Nair was arrested and remanded on March 28 in connection with the case.

Police found that Nair had planted the crude bomb to settle his grudge with a security official and that there was no terror angle to it.
The crude bomb was found wrapped in a newspaper in the cargo section of a plane which had flown from Bangalore to Thiruvanthapuram.

Police now say that Sunil was only one among the many suspects who were questioned and let off and that they are shocked at the contents of his suicide note. They are now probing the unidentified phone call he received shortly before he took his life.

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