Kollam tragedy resulted from live bombs going off with fireworks

The discovery of three cars laden with bombs parked near the Puttangal Devi temple in Kollam in Kerala has given a new twist to the massive fireworks related deaths numbering over 100 and maiming of people in hundreds in the temple town early on Sunday. As part of the investigations, the police got down to searching the parked cars out of curiosity. But what they found in them has given a new direction to the whole tragedy. The cars were fully loaded with bombs. Now the police suspect that along with fireworks some explosives may have gone off smashing everything in their range. There were cement concrete pillars that had come off, a concrete house was reduced to debris, an iron safe door got crumpled and unhinged. All this could not have happened with fireworks, however powerful they may be. Only a few bombs going off along with the fireworks, and timed with the fireworks, could have resulted in the tragedy of the unpredented proportions. Compare it with unsecured fireworks manufacturing tragedies in Sivakasi and other areas. Never was the toll as high as Kollam tragedy. The Kollam police were now engaged in defusing the bombs in the laden cars. The anti-social angle in view of the elections is also being looked into.