Bengaluru Rameshwaram Cafe Blast: New picture reveals prime suspect without hat, mask | Oneindia

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More pictures of the Bengaluru Cafe blast suspect have surfaced, showing him travelling on a bus. The explosion, which took place on March 1 at Rameshwaram Cafe in Brookfield in East Bengaluru, left at least 10 people injured. One of the pictures also showed the suspect without a hat or a mask. Some reports claim that the suspect’s baseball cap has also been recovered by the National Investigation Agency (NIA). A source said that it seems that the Bangalore suspect changed his clothes after the blast.

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00:00 More pictures of the Bengaluru cafe blast suspect have surfaced, showing him travelling

00:07 on a bus.

00:08 The explosion, which took place on March 1 at Rameshwaram Cafe in Brookfield in East

00:13 Bengaluru, left at least 10 people injured.

00:16 One of the pictures also showed the suspect without a hat or a mask.

00:20 Some reports claim that the suspect's baseball cap has also been recovered by the National

00:24 Investigation Agency.

00:25 A source said that it seems that the Bangalore suspect changed his clothes after the blast.

00:32 Some aspects of the identity of the suspect was revealed through the CCTV trail of March

00:36 1 when the bomb blast at the Rameshwaram Cafe in the Whitefield area of Bengaluru injured

00:40 nine people.

00:41 The CCTV cameras have captured the suspect's arrival in a public bus at a bus stop located

00:46 about 100 km from the cafe at around 10.45 am, his entry into the cafe at 11.34 am, exit

00:53 at 11.43 am and subsequent walk to a bus stop over a kilometre away for his escape using

00:58 public buses.

00:59 On Wednesday, the NIA announced a reward of Rs 10 lakh for information about the suspect

01:04 and also posted his CCTV grab.

01:08 A report in Indie Express quoted its sources as saying that the CCTV trail of the suspect

01:12 from his arrival to his escape an hour before the 12.56 pm blast at the cafe has provided

01:18 some key leads, including his facial features.

01:21 The publication's sources indicated that the suspect travelled in multiple public buses,

01:25 both to plant the IED he was carrying and to flee the scene, and made multiple stopovers,

01:30 including at a Muslim religious centre a few kilometres from the site of the incident during

01:34 the getaway process.

01:36 On March 1, nine people were injured when a blast took place at Bengaluru's Rameshwaram

01:40 Cafe in Brookfield, where both staff and customers at the cafe sustained injuries.

01:45 The explosion was caused by the bag placed by a customer, according to the Rameshwaram

01:49 Cafe owners.

01:50 CCTV video footage of the incident showed an explosion, leading to smoke and panic stricken

01:55 customers and others fleeing the place.

01:57 On March 4, the Ministry of Home Affairs handed over the Bengaluru's Rameshwaram Cafe blast

02:02 probe to the National Investigation Agency.

02:05 Following the explosion, Karnataka police registered a case under the Stringent Unlawful

02:09 Activities Prevention Act and Explosives Substances Act, as officials from the local unit of NIA

02:15 and the Intelligence Bureau examined the blast site.

02:18 Karnataka Chief Minister Sardaramaiah claimed that the explosion is suspected to have been

02:21 carried out by an improvised explosive device.

02:24 Meanwhile, the owner will reopen the Brookfield outlet of the Rameshwaram Cafe on March 8.

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