05-24-2008, 02:43 AM
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Pioneer News Service | Raipur
A truck loaded with about nine tonnes of gelatine explosives was seized by the police on the outskirts of Raipur.
Police claimed that the explosive was stolen. The truck was found abandoned on Thursday from near national highway, police said on Friday.
The seizure has alarmed the police as it is the biggest recovery of explosives after a huge cache of arms and ammunition was recovered abandoned from a Raipur posh locality. Police sources did not rule out the possibility of explosives likely to be meant for carrying out a terror act or for the Left-wing guerrillas, though a probe has been ordered into it.
The explosives, police said, were ordered by a Nagpur-based coal mine company. The vehicle carrying the consignment containing explosives to Nagpur from Jharkhand, was stolen in Chhattisgarh's Janjgir district. However, how it reached the State capital is still unanswered. "The truck driver left the vehicle at Janjgi and went to Korba for some work, when it was stolen" city Superintendent of Police Lal Umed Singh told The Pioneer. He informed that Janjgir police had registered a case of theft of the same vehicle. A hunt is on to nab the driver.
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Pioneer News Service | Raipur
A truck loaded with about nine tonnes of gelatine explosives was seized by the police on the outskirts of Raipur.
Police claimed that the explosive was stolen. The truck was found abandoned on Thursday from near national highway, police said on Friday.
The seizure has alarmed the police as it is the biggest recovery of explosives after a huge cache of arms and ammunition was recovered abandoned from a Raipur posh locality. Police sources did not rule out the possibility of explosives likely to be meant for carrying out a terror act or for the Left-wing guerrillas, though a probe has been ordered into it.
The explosives, police said, were ordered by a Nagpur-based coal mine company. The vehicle carrying the consignment containing explosives to Nagpur from Jharkhand, was stolen in Chhattisgarh's Janjgir district. However, how it reached the State capital is still unanswered. "The truck driver left the vehicle at Janjgi and went to Korba for some work, when it was stolen" city Superintendent of Police Lal Umed Singh told The Pioneer. He informed that Janjgir police had registered a case of theft of the same vehicle. A hunt is on to nab the driver.
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