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Is it the missing ammunition box?

Staff Reporter

KOLKATA: There was panic at the Howrah station on Tuesday afternoon after the Railway Protection Force found an abandoned ammunition box in an empty compartment of the stationary Howrah-Bhadrak Passenger.

The box, detected during a routine joint check by the RPF and the Government Railway Police (GRP) on the train, resembled an armed force ammunition box and had “10 bombs, 51 mm, High Explosive” written on it. The train had arrived from the Santragachhi car shed.

“Following the series of bomb blasts at different cities in the country, the RPF and GRP took immediate action by unloading the box and cordoning off the area. We also put sand bags around the box, said Dilip Mitra, Additional Director-General of Police (Railway).

A bomb disposal squad of the armed forces rushed to the spot. It is learnt from railway authorities that an ammunition box, which was a part of a consignment booked by the armed forces on the Puri-Santragachhi Passenger on September 22 for being taken from Bhubaneswar to Balasore, was missing.

The armed force personnel identified the box as a defence object. “The squad is trying to verify whether the box is the one that went missing from the lot number,” said M. Jamshed, Divisional Railway Manager (Howrah).

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