Train blast perpetrators influenced by ISIS: Chouhan

Bhopal : The perpetrators of Bhopal-Ujjain train bomb explosion were influenced by ISIS ideology and the incident was a “trial blast” as the terrorists planned to carry out more attacks, the Madhya Pradesh Government said on Wednesday.
Speaking in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said those who orchestrated the blast arrived from Lucknow and planted the bomb in the passenger train as part of a “planned conspiracy”.
At least 10 people were injured, three of them seriously, in the IED blast in the train near Jabdi station in Shajapur district of Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday.
“The terrorists were influenced by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terror ideology and carried out the blast. It was a planned conspiracy,” Chouhan said in the Assembly during the ongoing budget session.
Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Bhupendra Singh said the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) explosion in the passenger train was a “trial blast”.
“Tuesday’s explosion carried out through IED was a trial blast. The police, however, smashed this terror network within five hours after the blast,” Singh told mediapersons in the state Assembly premises on Wednesday.The terrorists had plans to orchestrate the blasts at some other places also, he claimed.