6,000 kg of gelatine sticks seized in Bihar

NAWADA: The Bihar police on Saturday recovered 6,000 kg of gelatin sticks, 8,640 detonators and 23 fuse-wires which, cops claimed, could have caused destruction similar to the 1993 Mumbai blasts.
Sources claimed the consignment was meant for Maoists.
The consignment, packed in cartons and loaded in a truck, was seized near Maoist-hit Makhar village along National Highway-31 in Nawada district.Seven suspected Maoists were arrested and a Maruti car, escorting the truck, was also seized.
Nawada SP Vinod Kumar claimed one big or two small cities could have been blown by landmine blasts with the use of the seized explosives.
"We had prior information about the truck crossing through the district," he said and added police are interrogating the arrested people.
Police said the truck, bearing Rajasthan number, was coming from Guna in Madhya Pradesh and, according to preliminary investigation, was on way to Sheikhpura and Munger districts.
The two districts are known Maoist strongholds. Those arrested have been identified as Man Singh and Raju of Rajgarh in Rajasthan, Dayanand and Munna Kumar of Sheikhpura district, Subodh Singh and Karu of Akbarpur block in Nawada district and Sanoj Kumar of Nalanda district.