400 kg. explosives seized in Bihar

Gaya (PTI): Over 400 kg of explosives, including high powered gelatin sticks stacked by the Maoists, was on Monday seized by the police from a hut in Ghurenabandh jungle under Barachatti police station in Bihar's Naxal-hit Gaya district.

"Acting on a tip-off, that the naxalites were clandestinely transporting the explosives in two bullock-carts to the jungle for a major operation, police raided the hut and seized the explosives," Superintendent of Police, Amit Kumar Jain told PTI.

One Ramswaroop Bhuiyan was also arrested in this connection, he said.

Jain said the seized explosive includes high-powered gelatine sticks.

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