WATCH | Men bomb DMK leader's house, terrify onlookers - but in no hurry to escape

Three men attacked a DMK leader's house in Kanchipuram with crude bombs. The nonchalance with which they did it was chilling.

 

Pramod Madhav  | Written by Ganesh Kumar and Edited by Arindam Mukherjee
Chennai, December 5, 2017 | UPDATED 09:12 IST
A man throws a crude bomb into the house of a DMK leader.A man throws a crude bomb into the house of a DMK leader.

Highlights

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    Two of the 3 men were filmed tossing bombs into the DMK leader's house
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    Terrified onlookers can be seen hurrying to leave the scene
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    One person was injured in the attack

No one had the slightest inclination that the three men, captured in this video, were loitering outside a DMK leader's home in Kanchipuram to lob bombs. Clad in casual wear, the men walked - no, strolled - calmly and unhurriedly as they might do on a Sunday morning in a park.

One of them even stopped to have a word with a couple of men on a scooter. After that he is shown walking up to a gate and tossing a crude bomb across a gate into the compound behind it. The perpetrator then walks away nonchalantly as though he has done nothing more than deliver the morning paper.

The people sitting just outside the gate sprang to their feet and scuttle off. But the man they were eyeing in horror was in no hurry to make a getaway. It wasn't over yet.

A second man enters the scene, and he too lobs a couple of bombs - one lands on the street and another into the DMK leader's house.

He, too, appeared unmoved by what he'd just done. He ambled away slowly with the first man.

By this time, at least two of the onlookers had already fled the scene.

A 55-year-old man was injured in the incident. The police are looking for the attackers.