Former AP CM, wife survive Naxal attack, 3 killed

BLAST BLUES: The former CM and his wife escaped unhurt in the explosion in Vidyanagar area of Nellore district.

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Nellore (Andhra Pradesh): Three people were killed and four injured in a bomb blast in Nellore, near the convoy of former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Janardhan Reddy.

Reddy, the former MP from Nellore and wife N Rajyalaxmi, who were travelling together, escaped unhurt in the explosion in Vidyanagar area of Nellore district.

Reddy and Rajyalakshmi, who is the state Women and Child Welfare Minister Rajyalakshmi, were going to Venkateshwara College in Tirupati where the former CM was to receive a doctorate degree.

The bomb was planted in the fourth car in the convoy, which consisted of 20 cars. He missed the car by just two cars.

The attack damaged one of the four cars of the convoy and all those killed are said to have been party workers.

The attack on the Congress leader, who was on the hit list of the naxals, has one again thrown up some disturbing questions about the state security.

In October 2003, former AP Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu had survived an attempt by the People's War (PW) to assassinate him. Naidu had sustained minor injuries when a bomb exploded near his convoy at Ghat Road on the way to the Tirumala temple from Tirupati.

In March 2000, Panchayati Raj Minister A Madhav Reddy was killed in a landmine blast triggered by the PW. He was on the hit list of the PW for his outspokenness on the issue of naxal violence.