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Huge explosives haul in Assam

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Guwahati: Security forces recovered huge quantity of explosives including gelatin sticks, detonators and fuse wire from two places in Assam on Thursday sending security forces into a tizzy.
Assam police recovered as many as 90 gelatin sticks, 100 packets of detonators inside an abandoned bag at Machkhowa bus terminus of Assam State Transport Corporation in the heart of Guwahati city Thursday.
Police picked up five persons for interrogation following recovery of explosives.
In another such haul of explosives, Government Railway Police (GRP) personnel recovered three bags full of explosive from Lower Haflong Railway station in Haflong town in troubled Dima Hasao hill district of Assam.
The bags containing explosive materials were found lying unattended on the platform after the Up Silchar-Lumding Cachar Express left the station past midnight.
The GRP personnel recovered 150 gelatin sticks, 600 detonators and over 30 feet of fuse wires from these abandoned bags.
The in-charge of GRP personnel at Lower Haflong station said investigation was on to find of the source and destination of these recovered explosive substances.
It is suspected that the explosives were dumped on the platform by the carriers to avoid detection while GRP personnel were carrying out routine check inside coaches of Cachar Express after it had reached Lower Haflong Station.
Security measures in Guwahati city has been tightened up after recovery of the explosive materials apprehending that anti-national elements might target the populous city to strike terror.

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