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Indian plastic containers used in London blasts
By agencies
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Tuesday, 26 July 2005, 19:30 IST
LONDON: This is probably not the kind of product endorsement the Indian plastics industry is seeking but Scotland Yard said today the food containers in which the four still missing London terrorists of July 21 hid their bombs were manufactured in India.
The active ingredient is said to be acetone peroxide, which presumably does not corrode the plastics made in India.
According to police, the four bombs were placed within plastic food containers which were then put in dark-colored rucksacks.
Scotland Yard deputy assistant commissioner Peter Clarke, head of the anti-terrorism branch, said today that the containers were manufactured in India and sold by only around 100 outlets in the UK. They were six-and-a-quarter litres in size and had white lids.
Normally, they would be used by Indian housewives in Britain to store anything from pickles to dalmoot, certainly not ingredients for bombs. They were labelled Delta 6250 on the lids and also had a label reading Family containers Delta superior quality.
A Thiruvananthapuram-based company called Family Plastics and Thermoware makes plastic containers using the Family brand name.
Its website says that within six months of inception in 1998, it started exporting to the UK and other countries.
Clarke appealed for any shopkeeper who had sold five or more of the containers to any customer to contact the police. This is because a fifth unexploded bomb has been found, abandoned in bushes.
The police are in a race against time to find the four men and possibly a fifth before they cause real devastation.
Just how close London came to disaster on July 21 was revealed today by the police, who said the four bombs were partially detonated. What this means is that the detonators partly worked but failed to set off the devices.
