The explosion that beginning of May An apartment destroyed in the Groningen neighborhood of Beijum was caused by the explosive TATP, which is also used by bombers and terrorists. That reports De Telegraaf. Two residents were injured in the explosion. They were arrested later. About fifty other residents of the complex had to leave their homes.
Soon after the explosion, it was clear that it was in the home an explosive substance was found. According to the newspaper, it now appears that this is TATP, a substance that is so unstable that it explodes immediately if it falls or is touched.
Terrorists and bombers
The substance is used to inflate ATMs. The perpetrators of the attacks in Paris in November 2015 had the explosive in their bomb belts.
Also at the attacks in Brussels from 2016, the bomb attack at the Manchester Arena in 2017 and the attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka in April last year, TATP was used.
Police and OM suspect, according to De Telegraaf, that the suspects, the two residents of the apartment and one 27 year old man from Groningen, made TATP to deliver to bombs or to use them to make bullets.
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