LAKHIMPUR (Assam): Over 125 kg of Neogel-90 explosives, the one used in the 2008 Jaipur blasts, has been seized from a truck in Assam's Lakhimpur
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district on Thursday.
The explosives were seized by a patrolling team of the CRPF and Assam police personnel when the truck, enroute to Itanagar in Arunachal Pradesh via Lakhimpur, was stopped at Khelmati outpost here, the police said.
The explosives were kept in four cartons and the police have detained the driver and seven people who were travelling in the truck.
The driver during interrogation claimed that a person had hired the truck, loaded the explosives and directed him to deliver it in Lakhimpur.
The police have launched a massive search operation to trace the people involved in the incident.
The explosives could have been brought by militant outfits NSCN (K), NDFB or ULFA as all three are active in the area, the police added.
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district on Thursday.
The explosives were seized by a patrolling team of the CRPF and Assam police personnel when the truck, enroute to Itanagar in Arunachal Pradesh via Lakhimpur, was stopped at Khelmati outpost here, the police said.
The explosives were kept in four cartons and the police have detained the driver and seven people who were travelling in the truck.
The driver during interrogation claimed that a person had hired the truck, loaded the explosives and directed him to deliver it in Lakhimpur.
The police have launched a massive search operation to trace the people involved in the incident.
The explosives could have been brought by militant outfits NSCN (K), NDFB or ULFA as all three are active in the area, the police added.
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