Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, who survived an assassination attempt by People's War Group naxalites was on October 2 flown to Hyderabad from Tirupati by a special aircraft and driven to his residence even as the government ordered a probe into the security lapses.

Naidu, who suffered collar-bone fracture and minor injuries on his nose and chest in a series of landmine blasts triggered by PWG naxalites at the foothills of Tirumala, is being treated by a panel of doctors.

The Chief Minister walked out of the aircraft down the ladder and got into his bullet-proof car waiting at the tarmac of Begumpet Airport here to head for his home.

As the powerful blasts exposed chinks in the security system and raised doubts over the efficacy of existing security drill, the state government ordered an inquiry by a retired IPS official to go into the lapses and suggest measures to make it fool-proof.

Dr S Subrahmanyam, who is presently the security advisor to the government, has left for Tirupati to study the blast scene.

Meanwhile, there was a steady stream of visitors at Naidu's Jubilee Hills residence with anxiety writ large on their faces.

Soon after Naidu reached home, Governor Surjeet Singh Barnala called on him, enquired about his condition and wished him a speedy recovery.

Earlier, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president M Venkaiah Naidu met the Chief Minister at the airport.

Naidu, with his hand in a plaster, spoke to his cabinet colleagues and party leaders who called on him and wanted them to assure people that he is doing fine.

The road leading to his residence in the posh Jubilee Hills area was turned into a virtual fortress with police cordoning off the place and conducting a thorough frisking of visitors.

Mediapersons and cameramen were not allowed inside.

Meanwhile, the police recovered eight unexploded landmines near the blast site at the ghat road leading to Tirumala temple, the state Central Investigation Department (CID) sources said.

It has now emerged that a total of 17 landmines were planted by extremists, of which nine had exploded.

"The bullet-proof car has saved the day. Had it been any other vehicle, it would have blown to smithereens," police sources added.

PTI