The blast took place exactly in the place where a Muslim youth was charred to death in an earlier riots. At 4:10 pm, the sixth bomb went off at the Timber Mart and three bombs at the city's Variety Hall. The next blast at Poompugar killed two people.
The explosion happened precisely where a Muslim teenager was killed in a previous riot. Six bombs detonated at the Timber Mart and Variety Hall, followed by a fatal blast at Poompugar that took two lives.