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Rockets unearthed in Maoist dumps

Staff Reporter

ANANTAPUR: The Anantapur district police have unearthed two dumps belonging to Maoists in the Bukkapatnam and Nallamala forest areas and recovered large quantity of explosives and other material.

Giving details to newspersons here on Tuesday, Superintendent of Police Sanjay Kumar Jain said the dumps contained two rockets, four claymore mines, 10 empty boxes of mines, 90 gelatine sticks, 10 tin bombs, three Bunsen burners, eight torch lights, 70 battery cells, two walkie-talkie chargers, 15 kg of splinters used in mines, gun powder, 60 steel boxes used for making tin bombs, cable and other material.

The SP claimed the recovery of massive dumps as significant as the rockets found in one of the dumps were very powerful and could have been used as missiles too for massive destruction.

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