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This City's Mad Traffic Jams Helped Avert A Terrorist Attack
Bangalore may be the first city in the world to prevent a terrorist attack using just bad traffic. Read know to all the details about this incident.
Bangalore traffic is hectic, and it is getting bad to worse day-by-day. With the increase in the number of vehicles plying on the road, going from point A to B is turning out to be a herculean task.
But did you ever imagine that this bad traffic can help you? Yes, according to a report from Deccan Herald, Bangalore may be the first city in the world to avert a terrorist attack using bad traffic.
As per reports, a man named Habib Mia was arrested in Tripura and brought to Bangalore last week. He told Police that, the terrorists who attacked IISc on December 28, 2005, also planned to attack other seminar events.
A terrorist who was travelling to the Indian Institute of Management on Bannerghatta Road got stuck in a traffic jam. And by the time he reached there, the seminar was over.
Apart from that, terrorists also dropped the plant of attacking an event at PES Institute of Technology. The reason behind this was because they couldn't find an easy escape route.
Traffic in Bangalore is getting out of hands as the years pass on. The vehicle population in the city is growing at an uncontrollable rate. Recent research on the traffic reveals some astonishing numbers.
In the past 40 years, the Bengaluru traffic has grown by a massive 6,099 percent. Till 2006, the city had only 28 lakh vehicles. But by 2016, the number of vehicles has increased to 66 lakh.
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