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Miscreants hurled petrol bombs at the BJP office in Coimbatore but no one was injured, police said.
Coimbatore: Miscreants hurled petrol bombs at the BJP office in Coimbatore early today but no one was injured, police said.
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The miscreants, who came in an auto-rickshaw, hurled the bombs at the office in Siddapudur at around 4 am, they said, adding that the bombs fell short of the BJP office building. A special police team has been formed to track down the culprits, based on CCTV camera footage, they added.
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The attack comes after the reported remarks of BJP national secretary H Raja on Dravidian leader E V Ramaswamy, known as Periyar, and also the removal of communist icon Vladimir Lenin's statue in Tripura.
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The local unit of the BJP has convened an emergency meeting following the incident, party sources said.
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Meanwhile, additional forces have been deployed near Periyar's statues in and around the city, police said. (PTI)