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Petrol bombs hurled at Coimbatore BJP office
No damages were reported, assailants yet to be identified
Unidentified persons hurled petrol bombs at the BJP office in Coimbatore in the early hours of Wednesday.The police said that two petrol bombs were thrown at the party office located on VKK Menon Road near Gandhipuram.
According to police, the attack took place around 3.20 a.m. The petrol bombs hit the wall of the two-storeyed building that houses the party office. The party office is located on the first floor.
One of the bombs hit the bill board of a travel agency functioning on the first floor. The police said that no damages were reported in the incident.
The police have got CCTV visuals of the attack. The identity of the assailants are yet to be traced, said the police.
Senior police officers have rushed to the party office where adequate number of policemen have been deployed to avoid law and order issues.
BJP State General Secretary Vanathi Srinivasan said the party suspected that the hurling of bombs could be the work of those organisations that could not digest BJP’s growth in Tamil Nadu, and Coimbatore in particular, and who upheld violence as a political tool.
