Nehru’s Escape In Bomb Explosion

Press, Volume C, Issue 29633, 2 October 1961, Page 11

Nehru’s Escape In Bomb Explosion

(N Z.P.A -Reuter—Conyrig M) NEW DELHI, September 30. The Indian Prime Minister (Mr Nehru) narrowly escaped injury yesterday when a crude bomb exploded in front of a New Delhi railway station shortly afyer his car had passed by.

The explosion injured a policeman and five passersby. who were taken to hospital.

Police launched one of the biggest manhunts ever carried out in the city in searca of the bomb-planters. Several people were reported

to have been questioned. Mr Nehru was returning home after opening a fair in celebration of Gandhi's birthday. The bomb was presumably timed to explode as Mr Nehru's car passed by, but it went off five minutes later.

At the fair, which opened shortly before the bomb explosion, Mr Nehru appealed to Master Tara Singh, the Sikh leader, to end his “fast unto death” before October 2 the anniversary of Gandhi’s birthday. The 76-year-old Sikh leadeU fasting in support of his demand for a separate Pun-jabi-speaking State. The Government has refused to set up a commission of Inquiry into the Sikh demands Even before the bomb exPlosion, the police had tightened the security cordon around Mr Nehru amid the Sikh agitation. Detectives moved ifito rooms immediately above and below his office in New Delhi, and plainclothes guards were strengthened at functions he attended.

Killed In Mixer.—Stanislaus Kaluzney, aged 3S. of Fawker a Melbourne suburb, was killed yesterday when he fell into a clay-mixing machine at a suburban brick works—Melbourne Sept 90