Berhampur, March 27: Police Friday seized around 5,000 detonators, 579 gelatin sticks, five bundles of live wires and two drilling machines from two persons at Buguda, about 60 km from here, in Ganjam district.
This huge quantity of explosives was seized from the houses of Panu Sahu and Dulal Dalia in Buguda, a senior police officer said.The duo possessed the highly explosive material without any valid documents, he added. Acting on a tip-off, the police raided the houses of the duo, and recovered the explosives.
Sahu was stated to be the main supplier of the explosive material to different quarries in the district illegally. The officer however ruled out the possibility of
supply of the explosives to Maoists by the duo. PTI
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