"Anand Rainman - The Belt" - читать интересную книгу автора (Rainman Anand)

The Captain called a woman constable. "Take this girl, photograph her, fax the photo to her office and confirm whether she is working there..."

"Okay. Sir.Ф
A row of Guest houses were built behind the auditorium. They used one of the rooms to check the credentials of the suspicious characters. The room was equipped with computers, fax machines and cameras and Anita was escorted to that room. A few minutes after, the captain heard a heavy din. The general murmur heard over the auditorium suddenly stopped and there hung a heavy silence. Some of the police people tried to move outside to inspect. But the captain stopped them.

"Don't alarm the people. You all stay inside."

He walked casually and, without alerting anyone, he came out of the auditorium. He crossed the long queue of people waiting, they all looked at him questioningly, and when he reached the back side of the auditorium and well out of the view of the people standing in the queue, he started to run.

When he entered the long veranda before the guest rooms, he smelt gun powder and he saw a group of police people standing before a room. The woman constable ran forward.

"Sir...that lady killed herself. She told me that the perfume smell is nauseating and she felt like vomiting. I showed her the bathroom. She went inside and few minutes after I heard the sound."

The captain went inside the room. The bathroom was collapsed. Bricks, mortar, broken basins, blood, bones and the torn pieces of human body were strewn around the room. The Captain came out.

"Play it cool... Don't break the news to anyone until the function finishes off. If the news spreads, there will be an alarm, people will disperse, and the function stops. It will anger the President and the party people."

The Captain came back to the auditorium. He told the people who asked him about the sound that some people were digging a well behind the auditorium and they set off a bomb to break the dry land. Soon the auditorium became full.

The Captain heard the sound of the President's arrival. The fleet of cars stopped before the auditorium, the President's body guards stepped out quickly and lastly the President came out. The body guards and the ministers surrounded him and escorted him to the auditorium. The President reached the stage amidst heavy claps. He was brought to sit in a chair in the centre of the stage and the function started.

The Captain was watching the function in a relaxed mood. A group of school children were playing a small drama on the stage. So far so good. Suddenly he heard a noise at the entrance of the auditorium. A sniffer dog was running inside the auditorium at high speed. It was literally pulling the trainer behind it. At one point, it broke free from the trainer and ran at high speed towards the stage. The other dogs, kept at the side of the auditorium, also pulled their trainers and ran behind the dog. They all smelt a bomb.

It stunned the captain. How? How could they plant the bomb inside the auditorium without his knowledge? He checked everywhere. How? How could they? He should do something. He should stop the bomb from exploding.

The dog ran at high speed.
It jumped on the stage and it ran towards the...
and it ran towards the...
ran towards the...
towards the...
the...
The President!!!!

Then it flashed in the Captain's mind. The belt... The belt strapped on the neck of the dog... He turned and ran towards the dog trainer. He jumped on her, pinned her hands and stopped her from pressing the remote.

The high command deliberately failed the third attempt.

Jansi was selected for the fourth attempt.

"You disguise yourself as a dog trainer. A trained dog will be given to you. You strap the belt bomb around it's neck. The dog is trained to find people by their smell. After the President enters the auditorium, you trail the dog behind the president and make it smell the scent of the President. You wait for sometime, then you go inside, free the dog and let it go towards the President sitting on the stage. The dog sniffs the scent of the President and moves forward. All the other sniffer dogs will smell the belt bomb and follow our dog. Nobody will guess the lead dog is carrying the bomb and all the other dogs are only trying to catch it..."

But the captain smelt the trick at the last moment and caught Jansi before she could press the remote.

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Anand Rainman is a writer in the regional language of Tamil and has published 22 crime novels in famous weeklies "KUMUDAM" and "ANANDA VIKATAN" both having 25 lakhs readership. Anand Rainman lives in Tamil Nadu, India.